AMERICAS  GREATEST^ 
MOST  ATTRACTIVE  CITY 


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Standard  Factory  Buildings 

IN  A  MODERN  FACTORY  DISTRICT 


The  Clearing  Industrial  District, 

Located  at  Chicago's  Great  Transpor- 
tation Center,  Provides  the  Best  in 
Present  Day  Manufacturing  Requirements 


Private  Switch   and   Belt   Line  Service. 

Less  Carload  Service  in  and  out  bound . 

Good  Labor  Conditions. 

Low  Taxes. 

Factories  and  Warehouses  erected  to  suit 


on  term  Lease  or  Sales  Contract. 

-Sewers,  Water,  Gas,  Electricity  and  improved 
Streets  installed  and  ready  for  immediate  use. 


FOR  MAPS,  PLATS  AND  FURTHER  INFORMATION 
APPLY  TO 

Clearing  Industrial  District 

1005  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK  BUILDING 
Telephone— Randolph  136  CHICAGO 


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The  sections  shown  in  black  are  The  Newberry  Library,  The  $5,000,000  Drake  Hotel  , 

The  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  The  Quigley  Memorial,  The  Chicago  Water  Works, 

The  Armory  and  Rest  House. 

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"OUR  BOY" 

THAT  is  the  proudest  word  American  parents  know  today — 
whether  his  youth  lives  only  in  the  memory,  or  whether  he 
comes  gloriously  home,  head  up,  clear  eyed,  a  modest  hero,  his 
duty  well  done. 

"Our  Boys"  can  never  be  too  highly  honored,  nor  can  the  mem- 
ories of  their  youth  be  too  highly  prized.  Pictures  are  the  keystone 
of  memory.  Every  little  snapshot,  even  tho  it  is  grey  or  out  of 
focus,  or  blurred,  is  treasured  as  a  keepsake  and  as  the  years  go  on 
each  keepsake  will  increase  in  sentiment. 

TAKE  THE  BEST  PHOTOGRAPH  of  the  Boy— soldier,  sailor 
or  marine,  and  give  it  the  place  of  honor  he  deserves  with  a  portrait, 
painted  from  it  in  colors.  He'll  never  be  in  navy  blue  or  khaki  again. 

In  the  days  when  his  grandchildren  beg  him  for  stories  of  the 
Great  War  he  will  bless  you  for  your  foresight  in  preserving  this 
picture. 

THE  PICTURES  OF  THE  "BOY"  ARE  NOT  THE  ONLY  ONES 
TO  TREASURE.  It  matters  not  if  you  are  a  merchant  prince,  a 
millionaire,  a  judge,  a  blacksmith,  a  tiller  of  the  soil,  a  mechanic  at 
the  bench,  or  a  laborer  in  the  streets,  your  children  reverence  your 
name,  and  your  portrait  to  them  has  more  of  the  tender  and  loving 
heart  value  than  that  of  anyone  else  on  earth. 

LET  THEM  SEE  THEIR  MOTHER,  that  dear  old  wrinkled  face. 
Let  them  study  the  sweetness  of  her  life  thru  sorrow  and  care  and 
unselfish  devotion.  Let  them  see  their  mother's  picture  all  the  time. 

AND  DON'T  FORGET  THE  BABY,  the  "sunshine  of  the  home," 
the  bright  eyes,  the  dimpled  cheeks,  the  little  hands  raised  lovingly 
for  your  smile,  and  in  the  evening  of  life  you  may  look  upon  the 
picture  and  once  more  see  the  happy  little  face. 


The  Chicago  Portrait  Company  has  always  maintained  standards  of 
the  strictest  excellence  in  its  work.  Its  officers  have  been  and  are  men, 
of  high  ideals,  to  whom  the  execution  of  each  order  has  been  a  trust 
received  directly  from  some  home.  The  spirit  of  service  of  these 
leaders  has  been  shared  by  the  entire  force  of  more  than  1,800  employes 
and  is  responsible  for  the  remarkable  public  confidence  accorded  the 
Chicago  Portrait  Company  and  its  work  thruout  the  country.  Be  sure 
that  vour  portraits  are  made  in  the  studios  of  this  great  institution. 


Chicago  Portrait  Company 

509  South  Wabash  Avenue  Chicago,  Illinois 


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Identified  With  the  (growth 
of  Chicago  for  32  Years 


FOR  MORE  than  32  years  H.  O.  Stone  & 
Company  has  stood  on  the  granite  rock  of 
conservatism.     Founded  in  1887,  this  com- 
pany has  been  in  the  front  rank  of   Chicago's 
real  estate  business,  in  all  its  branches,  for  a  third 
of  a  century. 

The  margin  of  safety  is  our  first  consideration,  rather  than 
the  margin  of  profit.  Conservative  advice,  friendly  co-oper- 
ation, helpful  service  to  our  clients  —  these  are  the  fundamen- 
tals which  have  made  and  maintained  our  success. 

Our  several  departments,  covering  the  various  branches  of 
real  estate,  mortgage  loans  and  investments,  are  so  systema- 
tized that  every  detail  receives  careful  attention. 

Each  department  having  experienced  managers  and  able 
assistants,  our  clients  receive  that  personal  service  which  is 
a  genuine  satisfaction,  no  matter  how  small  or  how  large  the 
transaction  may  be. 

We  are  endeavoring  to  extend  this  personal  service  to  others 
who  will  appreciate  the  careful  and  courteous  advice  and 
assistance  for  which  this  house  is  well  known.  We  shall  feel 
grateful  for  a  consultation  in  any  of  the  following  departments  : 


Mortgage  and  Bond  Department 

Loan  Department 

Sales  Department 

Business  Property  Department 

Subdivision  Department 


Renting  Department 
Insurance  Department 
Collection  Department 
Legal  Department 
Accounting  Department 


ESTABLISHED   1887 


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Conway  Bldg.,  Ill  VV.  Washing  ton  St.,  Chicago 


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ROBERT  W.  HUNT          JNO.  J.  CONE          JAS.  C  HALLSTED          D.  W.  McNaagher 

ROBERT  W*  HUNT  &  CO.  ENGINEERS 

INSPECTION— TESTS— CONSULTATION 

Inspection  and  Testing  of   Structural  Steel,  Reinforcing 
Steel,  Cement  and  other  Building  and  Engineering  Materials 

Resident  Inspectors  At   All  Principal 
Steel  Mills  and  Manufacturing  Plants 

Supervision  of  Construction  and  Field  Inspection 
of  Steel  and  Concrete  Structures 

Load  Tests  of  Floors,  Walls  and  Columns 
Chemical,  Cement  and  Physical  Laboratories 

GENERAL  OFFICES 

NEW  YORK          2200  INSURANCE  EXCHANGE  BUILDING  ST.  LOUIS 

PITTSBURGH  CHICAGO  SAN  FRANCISCO 


MARSH  &  MCLENNAN 

INSURANCE 

FIRE  CASUALTY 

MARINE  BONDS 

Insurance  Exchange,  Chicago 


New  York 

Minneapolis 

Denver 


OFFICES  IN 
San  Francisco 
Detroit 
Duluth 


London 

Montreal 

Winnipeg 


BOOK    OF    CHICAGO  —  ADVERTISING    SECTION 


H.  M.  BYLLESBY  &  COMPANY 

INCORPORATED 
111  Broadway,  New  York  208  So.  La Salle  St.,  Chicago 

Investment  Securities 

ENGINEERS  AND  MANAGERS  OF  ELECTRIC,  OIL 
AND  GAS  PROPERTIES 

Examinations  ::     ::     ::  Reports 

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Capital,  $300,000.00 
Surplus,  $300,000.00 


DIRECTORS 

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LOUIS  F.  SWIFT 

ARTHUR  MEEKER 

EDWARD  MORRIS  f 
ARTHUR  G.  LEONARD 
C.  M.  MAcFARLANE 
THORNHILL  BROOME  | 
JAMES  H.  ASHBY 
SAMUEL  COZZENS 
S.  T.  KIDDOO 


C    N   STANTON  ^ 

4162  So.  Halsted  St.     CHICAGO,  ILL.  I 


Founded  1710 — 209th  Year  INSURANCE  IS  AS   OLD  AS  THE  SUN  Established  1824 

THE  SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE,  OF  LONDON 

Was    Established    in    1710,    and   Is    the   Oldest  Fire  Insurance  Company  in  the  World. 

THE  PATRIOTIC  ASSURANCE  CO.,  Ltd. 

of    Dublin,    was    Established    in    1824,    and    Offers   Indemnity    Proved   by    Every   Test   of   Time 

THE  INSURANCE  COVERAGE   is  Complete,   Modern  and    Satisfying — Nothing    better    can    be    bought. 

THE   CLAIM-PAYING    HISTORY   of   the    companies   is   Notable   for   the   Prompt,   Liberal   and   Considerate 
treatment   of   their   Policyholders.      No   company   has   a   prouder   record   than   ours. 

THE  SERVICE  TO  AGENTS  is  all  that  might  be  expected    from   organizations   that   have   steadily   devel- 
oped in  efficiency,   strength  and   the   highest  business   ideals   during   their   many   years  of  life. 

Agents   who   desire   superior   company   representation,   in   unoccupied    territory,     are     invited    to     negotiate. 

UNITED  STATES  BRANCH  WESTERN     DEPARTMENT  PACIFIC    COAST    DEPARTMENT 

54   Pine   Street,   New  York  76  West  Monroe  Street,  Chicago  San  Francisco 

P.   T.   KELSEY,  U.  S.   Manager  JOHN    F.    STAFFORD,    Mgr.  C.   A.   HENRY,   General   Agent 


BOOK     OF    CHIC  AGO  — ADVERTISING    SECTION 


The  Largest  Bank  on  the 
North-West  Side 

North  -Western 

Trust  &  Savings 

Bank 

1201  MILWAUKEE  AVE. 
Does  a  General  Banking  Business 

Assets 
$13,000,000.00 

John  F.  Smulski,  President 

Wm.  H.  Schmidt,  Vice-President 

Walter  J.  Raymer,  Vice-President 
John  A.  Prebis,  Vice-President 
Theo.  M.  Helinski,  Cashier 


Western  Alliance 
Insurance  Company 

Chicago's  Leading  Fire  Insurance  Company 

Successor  through  merger  of 

Merchants  National  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  Chicago 

Bankers  &  Merchants  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  Minneapolis 

Great  Northern  Insurance  Company, 
St.  Paul 


Capital  $350,000.00 
Assets,  $885,743.97 


Being  purely  a  Chicago  and  Illinois  com- 
pany, we  solicit  the  patronage  of  all 
Chicago  business  men  and  brokers. 

ARCHIBALD  A.  McKINLEY,  President 


Visit  our  display  rooms 
and  be  convinced — 

Lamps 

Candle  Sticks 
Floor  Stands 

Residential  Lighting 
Fixtures 

Commercial  Lighting 
Units 

Let  us  estimate  on  your  requirements. 

R«  Williamson  &  Co* 

Washington  and  Jefferson  Sts. 
Haymarket  724  CHICAGO 

Manufacturers  of 

LIGHTING  FIXTURES 


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ILLINOIS  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO. 

CHICAGO 
James  W.  Stevens,  President 

GREATEST  ILLINOIS  COMPANY 

OVER  ONE  HUNDRED  MILLIONS  INSURANCE 
IN  FORCE 


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Hyde  Park  State  Bank 

53rd  St.  and  Lake  Park  Ave. 
Member  Federal  Reserve  System 

Every  facility  for  anyone's  banking  needs 


OFFICERS 

JOHN  A.  CARROLL     -     - 
DANIEL  A.  PEIRCE    - 
MATTHEW  A.  HARMON  - 
JORDAN  B.  COTTLE  -     - 
OLIVER  H.  TRAMBLAY   - 


President 
Vice  President 
Vice  President 
Cashier 
Asst.  Cashier 


DIRECTORS 

DANIEL  A.  PEIRCE        HENRY  L.  STOUT      FRANK  W.  HOWES 

CHARLES  R.  HORRIE     DANIEL  F.  BURKE    JAMES  J.  CARROLL 

WILLIAM  J.  PRINOLE  JOHN  A.  CARROLL 


All  Branches  of 

BANKING 


In  the  Heart  of  the  Business  and  Financial 
District 


Commercial  Department 
Savings  Department 
Trust  Department 
Foreign  Department 
Loan  Department 
Investment  Department 
Safe  Deposit  Vaults 

Greenebaum  Sons  Bank 
and  Trust  Company 


Founded  1855 


A  State  Bank 


Capital  and  Surplus 
$2,000,000 


O'Brien  Insurance  Agency 

112  WEST  ADAMS  ST. 
CHICAGO,  ILL. 

GENERAL  INSURANCE 

Representing 

Niagara  Fire  Ins.  Co.  -  -  New  York 

Glens  Falls  Ins.  Co.    -  -           " 

Abeille  Fire  Ins.  Co.    -  -  -    -   Paris 

American  Lloyds    -    -  -  New  York 

TELEPHONE     RANDOLPH    2450-2451 


Low 

Insurance 

Rates 


Are  often  obtained  through 
careful  preparation  of  a 
policy  form;  by  the  correc- 
tion of  easily  remedied  de- 
fects in  construction  and 
processes;  and  by  the  in- 
stallation of  simple  fire  pro- 
tection devices. 

Our  clients  are  always  sure 
of  minimum  rates  through 
the  service  of  our  under- 
writing department  and  en- 
gineering and  inspection  de- 
partment. 

FRED  S.  JAMES  &  CO. 

All  Branches  of  Insurance 
Insurance  Exchange  CHICAGO 


BOOK     OF    C  H  1C  AGO— ADV  ERTISIN  G     SECTION 


Expensive  art  work,  engravings  and  printing  represent  so  much  money  thrown  away 
if  printed  on  paper  that  does  not  deliver  your  message.  It  does  not  pay  in  direct- 
by-mail  advertising  to  use  a  paper  that  will  not  carry  in  the  mail.  An  advertising  broad- 
side must  take  a  lot  of  punishment  from  the  time  it  leaves  your  office  until  the 
time  it  reaches  the  addressee;  if  it  arrives  in  dilapidated  condition  you  know  the  answer. 

FORTY-FOLD  BROADSIDE  ENAMEL  is  the  highest  type  of  printing-folding 
paper  made;  it  will  bring  out  the  full  beauty  of  your  engravings  and  type  displays;  it 
will  take  many  folds  with  or  across  the  grain,  yet  will  not  break  or  come  apart. 

Your  printer  can  do  his  best  on  Forty- Fold. 
ESTABLISHED  1844 

J.  W.  BUTLER  PAPER  COMPANY 

CHICAGO 


Seaman  Paper  Company 


i   208  So.  La  Salle  Street 
Chicago,  111. 

Manufacturers  and  national  distributors  of 
fine  printing  papers. 


BOOK     OF    CHICAGO—ADVERTISING     SECTION 


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Without  Vision 

Man's  great  creations  were  not  possible!! 

Those  who  looked  forward  and  had  faith  in  the  physical 
development  of  Chicago — particularly  in  the  creation  of 
the  wonderful  Lake  Front  Improvements — now  will  reap 
their  reward. 

Michigan  Avenue 

and  other  thoroughfares  in  the  South  Central  Business  District 
offer  opportunities  for  investment  that  will  pay  the  richest  kind  of 
rewards.  Purchases  of  frontage  on  such  thoroughfares  made  now 
at  before-the-war  prices,  with  the  dollar-cut-in-two,  spell  riches  to 
those  who  have  vision  and  courage. 


S.  E.  Corner  Dearborn  and  Adams  Sts. 
OVER   30    YEARS'   EXPERIENCE  IN   CHICAGO   BUSINESS  PROPERTY  I 

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1  S!  V!5I  ISIII  I)  1882  INCORPORATED 

STRAUS  BUILDING—  CHICAGO 

Clark  and  Madison  Sts.  Telephone  Franklin  4646 

New  York  Philadelphia          Washington          Detroit          Milwaukee          Minneapolis          San  Francisco 

37  Years  Without  Loss  to  Any  Investor 


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PAUL  C.  LOEBER 


JOHN  G.  PROSS 


Paul  C.  Loeber  &  Co. 

REAL  ESTATE 


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1 1 1  W.  Washington  Street 

Telephones:     Franklin  756  and  757 


Specializing  in 

BUSINESS  PROPERTY 
INDUSTRIAL  PROPERTY 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUATION 


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Complete  Financial  Service — "Price,  Value  and  Personal  Service" 

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Why  City  Planning  Pays 

By 

CHARLES  H.  WACKER 

Chairman,  Chicago  Plan  Commisssion 


"It  promotes  trade  by  supplying  direct 
and  easy  ways  for  the  extension  and 
development  of  commerce;  fosters  city 
growth  by  making  it  easier  and  cheaper 
to  conduct  all  classes  of  business;  in- 
creases and  insures  all  property  values 
by  preventing  the  many  evils  of  hap- 
hazard building;  makes  every  citizen  a 
more  efficient  worker  by  saving  time 
and  money  in  transit  of  goods  and 
people;  and,  above  all,  it  assures  to  that 
city  which  adopts  it,  a  future  citizenry, 
sound  in  body,  mind  and  morals." 


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Chicago's  Greatest  Hour 


This  Book  of  Chicago  is  dedicated  to  those  public  spirited  men  of  this  city  who      j 
have  by  their  financial  support  and  co-operation  helped  to  bring  about  the  pree-      ; 
ent  Reconstruction  Plan  of  Chicago  so  ably  evolved  by  the  Plan  Commission  and      I 
loyally  supported   by   the    May«r,   the   City   Council,  the  Real   Estate   Boards,  the      ] 
Commercial  Club,  the  Association  of  Commerce,  and  every  other  civic  organiza- 
tion looking  to  the  future  welfare  of  this  great  city  by  the  lake.     May  it  help  to      ; 
speed   on  the  good   work   now  under   full  swing  to   an  early   completion,  so  that      i 
we  of  this  generation   will   be  able  to  enjoy  it   and  to  rejoice  in  this,   Chicago's 
Greatest   Hour. 

— F.  J.  CAMPBELL.  Publisher. 


CHICAGO  stands  within  striking  distance  of  her   greatest  goal.     This   wonder 
city  that  arose  from  the  ashes  of  the  great  fire  of  1871,  is  about  to  come  into 
her  own.     The  things  of  which  Burnham    dreamed,   the   things    which   we^e 
regarded  as  visionary  less  than  a  generation  ago,  are  now  under  way  and  will  be- 
come a  reality  in  less  time  than  then  seemed  possible.     In  fact,  within  ten  years  the 
principal  features  of  the  regal  Chicago  Plan  will  have  been  completed.     Then  this 
generation  will  be  the  greatest  and  proudest  in  all  Chicago's  marvelous  history. 

The  passage  of  the  park-terminal-electrification  ordinance  insures  that  within 
six  years  the  greater  outer  park  between  the  mouth  of  the  river  and  Jackson  Park 
—  with  lagoons,  bathing  beaches,  pleasure  boat  harbors,  stadium,  golf  courses, 
speedboat  courses  —  will  be  completed.  That  within  ten  years  there  will  be  com- 
plete electrification  of  the  I.  C.  north  of  Roosevelt  Road,  and  electrification  of  the 
entire  suburban  service  —  in  fact,  elimination  of  ninety  per  cent  of  the  I.  C.  smoke. 
(It  can,  and  probably  will,  be  done  in  much  quicker  time.) 

In  less  than  six  years  the  Lincoln  Park  Board  will  have  finished  its  shore  devel- 
opment close  up  to  the  Evanston  line  •  then,  with  the  linking  of  the  outer  drives  over 
the  mouth  of  the  Chicago  River,  we  will  have  completed  our  twenty-five  mile  lake 
shore  park,  the  greatest  and  most  beautiful  in  the  world. 

Michigan  Avenue,  the  $15,000,000  improvement  with  double  -decked  bridge  and 
broad  plazas,  will  be  completed  next  year. 

The  Roosevelt  Road  viaduct,  the  last  link  of  the  Twelfth  Street  improvement, 
should  be  completed  next  year. 

If  the  people  next  November  vote  the  $28,600,000  of  bonds  authorized  by  the 
Legislature,  the  Ogden  Avenue,  South  Water  Street,  Robey  Street,  Ashland  Avenue 
and  Western  Avenue  improvements  will  start  at  once  and  will  be  completed 
within  five  years. 

The  passage  of  the  I.  C.  ordinance  will  remove  the  last  obstacles  to  the  straight- 
ening of  the  river,  really  a  small  task,  which  will  pay  for  itself  through  the  land 
reclaimed.  (This  could  be  done  within  a  year.) 

Within  five  years  the  $50,000,000  Union  Depot  will  be  finished  :  also  the  $6,000,- 
000  West  Side  Postoffice. 

Next  year  we  expect  to  start  upon  "The  Town  Hall  of  the  Nation,"  the  great- 
est convention  hall  of  the  world,  authorized  by.  act  of  the  last  Legislature. 

Next  year,  thanks  to  the  initiative  of  Mayor  Thompson,  Chicago's  Stadium  will 
begin  to  assume  its  titanic  lines. 

With^  the  foregoin^cornpleted,_there  will  be  accomplishedjthe^  principal  thi 


of  the  Chicago  Plan.     Chicago  in  truth  stands  upon  the   threshold  of  her  greatest 
achievements. 


CHARLES   H.    W ACKER, 
Chairman    Chicago    Plan    Commission. 


Plan  of  Chicago  and  the  People 

By    WALTER    D.     MOODY,    Managing    Director 
Author     of     "What    of     the    City?" 


!  I 


I  1 


EVERY  school  child  in  Chicago  can  tell 
what  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission 
is — why  it*  is  and  what  it  does.  Chi- 
cago's children  today  are  all  boosters  for 
its  Plan.  Tomorrow  they  will  be  its  back- 
ers. The  Plan  of  Chicago  is  well  on  its 
way  to  fulfillment.  The  voters  can  give  it 
a  mighty  boost  on  November  4th,  when  they 
will  have  the  opportunity  to  pass  upon  bond 
issues  to  the  extent  of  $28,600,000,  for 
Plan  projects,  recommended  and  in  the 
making. 

Every  great  and  desirable  thing  is  a  mat- 
ter of  progressive  development.  It  is  an 
old  saying  that  "you  cannot  pick  your  fruit 
until  it  is  ripe."  Seed  planting,  cultivation, 
growth  and  harvest,  all  have  their  periods 
before  the  crop  is  garnered.  And  sp  it  is 
with  the  Plan  of  Chicago  and  the  Plan 
Commission.  Present  accommplishments 
by  the  Commission  in  advancing  the  Plan 
are  the  logical  results  of  long  and  careful 
nurture — the  results  of  good  seed  and  fer- 
tile soil — a  city  badly  needing  orderly  devel- 
opment— a  Plan  for  every  section  and  all 
the  people. 

From  this  combination  the  Plan  of  Chi- 
cago tree  has  shot  upward,  spreading  its 
branches  over  a  suffering  and  grateful  peo- 
ple. Already  a  giant  growth,  the  Chicago 
Plan  Tree  will  continue  to  add  to  its  girth. 
Other  branches  will  sprout  and  develop  as 
have  those  which  have  already  grown;  the 
Roosevelt  Road  widening;  the  Michigan 
Avenue  extension ;  the  West  Side  terminal 
construction,  the  widening  of  Canal  Street 
and  the  Polk  and  Taylor  Street  Viaducts, 
the  double  level  Kinzie  Street  viaduct  and 


bridge  and  the  West  Side  post  office  site; 
the  Ogden  Avenue  extension ;  the  Western 
and  Ashland  Avenue  widenings ;  the  Robey 
and  South  Water  Street  improvements ;  the 
lake  front  parks  and  new  Illinois  Central 
plans,  and  the  Forest  Preserves.  These 
main  branches  of  the  Plan  of  Chicago  have 
sprouted  besides  several  smaller  ones. 

The  reason  Chicago  children  know  and 
love  this  tree  is  because,  for  eight  years, 
they  have  studied  all  about  it  in  their 
schools.  But  the  Plan  tree  was  set  out  and 
history  was  made  before  they  heard  of  it 
in  their  classes. 

Mayor  Fred  A.  Busse  at  the  direction  of 
the  City  Council,  appointed  the  Chicago 
Plan  Commission  in  1909.  To  make  sure 
against  its  failure  by  the  frequent  changes 
in  city  administrations,  he  named  Charles 
H.  Wacker,  as  its  permanent  chairman. 

Mayor  Busse  appointed  a  city-wide  com- 
mission to  serve  with  Mr.  Wacker.  Its 
three  hundred  and  twenty-eight  members 
who  represent  every  element  and  all  classes 
of  citizens,  are  directed  by  an  equally  rep- 
resentative executive  committee  of  twenty- 
six  members.  The__Fjan__  Commi.ssi.QJi!s 
power  is^  purely  jjjjyjsory.  It  studies  the 
Plan  of  Chicago  and  recommends  to  the 
City  Council  what  parts  should  be  carried 
out  and  when.  It  acts  as  advisor  to  the 
City  Council  in  all  matters  pertaining  to 
public  improvements  whether  these  are  or 
are  not  included  in  the  Plan  of  Chicago. 
This  was  wisely  ordained  so  that  all  pub- 
lic improvements  contemplated  would  fit  in 
with__the  Plan  thus  avoiding  further  haj> 
hazard  city  development. 


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MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACT!]'  E 


r  It  has  come  to  be  recognized  that  the 
Plan  Commission  is  as  valuable  for  what 
it  prevents  of  an  undesirable  character  as 
for  what  it  recommends  and  promotes  of 
a  desirable  character. 

— 

The  Plan  Commission  was,  among  other 
things,  principally  charged  by  Mayor  Busse 
and  the  City  Council  who  created  it,  to 
make  the  Plan  of  Chicago  known  to  the 
whole  city  and  all  elements  in  it,  so  that  it 
could  be  quickly  and  intelligently  carried 
out.  This  has  been  done  by  the  Commis- 
sion working  with  the  newspapers,  and  in 
hundreds  of  illustrated  lectures,  motion  pic- 
tures, books  and  periodicals,  special  and 
technical  reports,  and  primarily,  Wacker's 
•Manual  of  the  Plan  of  Chicago  in  the 
schools. 

Besides  its  executive  officers,  the  chair- 
man, vice-chairman  and  managing  director, 
the  Commission  has  for  its  technical  con- 
sultant Edward  H.  Bennett,  who  was  the 
first  assistant  in  creating  the  Plan  of  Chi- 
cago. 

Back  of  all  this — before  the  Plan  Com- 
mission— before  study  by  the  school  chil- 
dren, its  consideration  by  the  public  and  its 
sponsoring  by  the  press — came  the  father 
of  the  Plan  of  Chicago,  the  late  Daniel 
Hudson  Burnham,  great  architect,  director 
of  works  of  Chicago's  World  Columbian 
Exposition,  world  noted  city  planner.  Back 
of  Burnham,  and  working  with  him,  was 
the  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago,  one  hun- 
dred of  Chicago's  leading  business  men  who 
contributed  the  money  necessary  to  create 
the  Plan  of  Chicago  and  who  have  since 
largely  maintained  the  Plan  Commission 
financially. 

After  years  of  study  and  hundreds  of 
conferences  by  the  Commercial  Club's  plan 
committee,  Mr.  Burnham  and  his  corps  of 
experts  completed  the  Plan  of  Chicago  early 
in  1909,  when  it  was  presented  as  a  gift  to 
the  people  of  Chicago  with  the  request  that 
a  commission  be  appointed  for  its  study 
and  promotion.  Thus  the  greatest  gift  that 
was  ever  bestowed  upon  the  people  of  a 


modern    city   became    the   heritage   of    the 
people  of  Chicago. 

TJiefManof   Chicago  is  LJgiown_Jja_lhe 
The  work  of  the  Chicago 


Plan  Commission  is  known  to  every  Chi- 
cagoan.  Its  methods  and  its  accomplish- 
ments are  known  in  every  land.  These  are 
universal  examples  for  similar  endeavor 
everywhere. 

Mayor  Carter  H.  Harrison  and  the  City 
Council  of  his  administration  advanced  the 
work  which  Busse  had  started.  Mayor 
William  Hale  Thompson,  the  City  Councils 
of  his  administrations  and  the  members  of 
his  cabinet  have  exceeded  all  precedent  in 
bringing  the  Plan  of  Chicago  to  fruition.  % 

The  people  of  Chicago  have  approved  the\ 
Plan  of  Chicago  by  large  majority  votes  at 
every  opportunity  given  them.  With  a 
hearty  will,  everybody  —  authorities  and 
citizens  alike  —  are  for  its  speedy  comple- 
tion. 

With  the  Roosevelt  Road  widening,  the 
Michigan  Avenue  extension,  the  West  Side 
terminals  and  the  Forest  Preserves  far  ad- 
vanced in  construction  there  remains  to  be 
started  of  the  projects  recommended,  the 
lake  front  plans,  which  must  have  a  permit 
from  the  War  Department  of  the  national 
government,  and  the  approval  of  the  voters 
at  the  coming  November  election  for  the 
necessary  bonds  for  the  Ogden,  Western 
and  Ashland  Avenue  and  the  Robey  and 
South  Water  Street  improvements.  There 
must  also  be  obtained  the  needed  federal 
appropriation  of  money  for  the  purcbase 
of  the  Canal  Street  post  office  site. 

The  state  legislature  after  weeks  of  hard 
work  gave  Chicago  the  right  to  bond  itself 
for  the  money  to  complete  these  improve- 
ments. The  Plan  of  Chicago  is  now  di- 
rectly up  to  the  voters  as  it  has  never  been 
before.  Their  action  on  November  4th 
will  be  a  notice  to  the  entire  world  that 
the  I  WILL  spirit  is  not  dead  but  lives  to 
send  Chicago  far  on  the  way  to  its  in- 
evitable destiny  —  the  world's  largest,  most 
attractive,  healthful  and  prosperous  city. 


Copyright,  The  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago 

PLAN  OF  BOULEVARD  TO  CONNECT  THE  NORTH  AND  SOUTH  SIDES  OF 

THE  CITY,  VIEW  LOOKING  NORTH  FROM  WASHINGTON    STREET 

Painting  by  Jules  Guerin  From  the  collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission 


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The    Chicago   "We   Will"    Spirit 


By    THE    PUBLISHER 


WHEN  the  Commercial  Club  of  Chi- 
cago in  1909,  after  years  of  study 
in  the  preparation  of  the  Plan  of 
Chicago,  and  hundreds  of  conferences,  com- 
pleted the  Plan  and  presented  it  to  the  City 
Council  of  Chicago,  with  the  request  that 
a  Plan  Commission  be  organized  for  its 
further  study  and  promotion,  the  club 
members  did  not  dream  that  progress  would 
be  made  in  carrying  out  the  plan  as  rap- 
idly as  has  been  the  case.  Nor  did  they  or 
the  Plan  Commissioners  anticipate  that  a 
great  world  war  would  occur  to  intercept 
its  progress. 

During  the  darkest  days  of  the  war  the 
officers  of  the_  Chicago  Plan  Commission 
believed  that  the  world  conflict  would  re- 
tard work  on  the  Plan  of  Chicago  at  least 
five  years.  The  sudden  ending  of  the  war, 
however,  had  just  the  opposite  tendency, 
and  from  present  indications  the  plan 
work  has  been  advanced  ten  years. 

The  great  war  served  to  vivify  rather 
than  to  dim  the  economic  and  humani- 
tarian advantages  of  the  Plan,  and  now  as 
if  by  magic  the  whole  city  seems  to  realize 
the  need  of  advancing,  at  the  earliest  pos- 
sible moment,  the  various  projects  already 
recommended. 

The  much-heralded  "Chicago  Spirit" — 
not  the  "I  Will"  spirit  but  the  "We  Will" 
spirit — is  again  working  in  utterly  re- 
markable fashion.  That  undaunted  spirit 
caused  the  present  city  to  rise  from  the 
hot  embers  of  the  great  fire  of  '71,  almost 
before  they  had  become  cool,  effacing  every 
evidence  of  the  fire  within  three  years. 

The  indomitable  spirit  that  produced 
the  World's  Fair  of  '93,  and  gave  such 


tremendous  impetus  to  constructive  art 
throughout  the  world — and  which  estab- 
lished Chicago  as  the  premier  constructive 
art  center  of  the  world — is  the  spirit — the 
Chicago  Spirit — that  has  been  stalkiing  in 
our  midst. 

After  eight  years  of  planning,  working 
and  preaching — years  in  which  there  was 
little  outward  evidence  of  city-wide  sup- 
port, now  overnight,  as  it  were,  the  city's 
great  commercial,  civic  and  social  clubs 
and  organizations,  a  united  press  and  the 
voices  of  leading  citizens,  like  Coxy's  army, 
have  arisen  entirely  upon  their  own  initia- 
tive to  the  whole-souled  support  of  the 
Plan  Commission,  and  are  backing  its  Re- 
construction Platform. 

During  the  war  public  improvement 
projects  were  seemingly  if  not  actually 
placed  in  the  non-essential  list.  The  abrupt 
termination  of  the  war  and  the  signing  of 
the  armistice  was  immediately  followed  by 
the  announcement  of  the  Commission's  Re- 
construction Platform,  and  its  headquar- 
ters at  once  became  a  veritable  beehive  of 
business  activity. 

The  only  difficulty  now  looming  up  like  a 
specter  to  thwart  the  early  and  large  prog- 
ress on  the  Plan  is  the  deplorable  financial 
situation  confronting  the  city  of  Chicago. 
The  loss  of  revenue_fr£aiLSglopn  and  other 
licenses  ami  sources  will  seriously  cripple 
the  city's  finances  this  year,  but  aside  from 
this  millions  of  dollars  are  necessary  ex- 
clusively for  public  works. 

Some  means  must  be  resorted  to  for 
emergency  relief  if  any  substantial  prog- 
ress is  to  be  made.  Cut  azvay  the  red-tape 
and  enact  emergency  legislation  is  the  cry 


Page  Ten 


MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACTIVE 


that  has  been  heard  and  complied  with  in 
England  and  France,  and  in  certain  large 
cities  in  the  United  States  where  a  public 
works  program  has  been  adopted  as  the 
best  and  safest  means  of  safeguarding  la- 
bor and  the  city  dweller  through  the  recon- 
struction period.  The  tax  rate  of  Chicago 
is  less  than  that  of  many  other  cities,  and 
its  indebtedness  per  capita  is  less  than  that 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  cities  of  the 
United  States. 

Emergency  plans  and  emergency  meas- 
ures is  the  universal  program.  Chicago 
alone  had  the  distinction  of  being  ready 
when  the  war  ended  with  a  well-thought- 
out  and  carefully  planned  program  of  pub- 
lic improvements,  which  found  expression 
in  the  Commission's  Reconstruction  Plat- 
form. 

The  Plan  of  Chicago,  among  other  things, 
provides  for  one  hundred  and  ninety-eight 
miles  of  street  improvements,  including  the 
extension  or  widening  of  existing  thor- 
oughfares and  the  building  of  new  ones. 
It  provides  for  a  marked  rehabilitation  of 
the  entire  railway  transportation  system 
and  for  large  additional  recreational  facil- 
ities through  increasing  the  park  area  by 
reclaiming  the  lake  front  and  in  the  acqui- 
sition of  forest  preserves. 

When  our  country  entered  the  war  and 
all  plan  work  was  stopped,  Roosevelt  Road 
had  been  widened  from  sixty-six  to  one  hun- 
dred and  eight  feet  for  a  distance  of  a  mile 
and  a  half.  The  remainder  of  this  important 
improvement,  consisting  of  a  new  bridge 
and  a  one  hundred  and  eighteen  foot  wide 
viaduct  from  Wabash  Avenue  to  Canal 
Street,  was  held  up,  but  plans  are  under- 
way for  its  construction  this  year. 

The  Michigan  Avenue  extension  and 
widening  from  Randolph  Street  across  the 
Chicago  River  to  Chicago  Avenue  started 
during  the  war.  The  widening  from  sixty- 
six  to  one  hundred  and  thirty  feet  on  both 
sides  of  the  river  has  been  accomplished, 
and  the  double-deck  bridge  and  upper  level 
roadway  are  now  under  construction  and 


should  be  finished  by  the  rirst  of  the  year. 

The  lake  front  plans,  requiring  the  filling 
of  the  submerged  area  for  five  miles  from 
Grant  to  Jackson  Park,  for  the  development 
of  1,280  acres  of  parklands,  protected 
watercourse  and  bathing  beaches,  which 
have  been  publicly  agitated  for  eight  years, 
were  held  up  just  prior  to  the  war  on  the 
inability  of  the  city  to  agree  with  the  Illinois 
Central  Railway  Company  on  the  question 
of  electrification  of  the  railroad  company's 
entire  system.  It  was  necessary  to  acquire 
the  riparian  rights  of  the  company,  which 
was  done  in  1913.  but  in  order  that  these 
might  be  utilized  by  the  city  in  building  the 
parklands.  it  became  necessary  for  an  agree- 
ment to  be  entered  into  between  the  city 
and  the  railroad  company  for  the  company's 
new  station  and  general  terminal  develop- 
ment. Accordingly  the  City  Council  at  its 
meeting  July  21.  1919,  by  a  vote  of  66  for 
and  only  2  against  (out  of  a  total  number 
of  70  aldermen)  approved  a  contract  ordi- 
nance covering  the  lake  front  park,  har- 
bor and  railway  terminal  development. 

The  Ogden  Avenue  extension  from 
Union  to  Lincoln  Park,  a  distance  of  three 
miles,  requiring  the  cutting  of  an  entirely 
new,  1 08  foot  wide,  diagonal  thoroughfare, 
has  been  provided  for  in  an  ordinance 
passed  by  the  City  Council  February  18.  A 
court  petition  has  been  entered  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  court  commissioners  to  value 
the  property  to  be  taken  for  the  extension, 
and  to  designate  the  zone  for  special  assess- 
ment. 

Within  the  month  the  City  Council  passed 
an  ordinance  directing  the  Board  of  Local 
Improvements  to  prepare  ordinances  for 
the  improvement  of  Western  and  Ashland 
Avenues  and  Robey  and  South  Water 
Streets  in  accordance  with  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission. 

These  provide  for  the  improvement  of 
the  three  leading  west  side  thoroughfares 
mentioned  by  making  them  a  uniform 
width  and  opening  them  through  where  they 
are  now  closed :  and  for  the  reclamation 


MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACTIVE 


Page  Eleven 


of  South  Water  Street  for  public  use,  and 
the  widening  of  that  thoroughfare  from 
eighty  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  feet 
from  its  south  line  to  the  banks  of  the 
Chicago  River,  and  its  connection  on  both 
the  upper  and  the  lower  level  with  the 
Michigan  Avenue  extension. 

The  west  side  terminal  plans,  incorpo- 
rated in  a  contract  ordinance  between  the 
city  and  the  companies  in  1913,  provided 
that  the  work  be  finished  in  five  years.  This 
included  the  building  of  the  new  Union 
Station  on  Jackson  Boulevard  and  Canal 
Street;  the  erection  of  the  Pennsylvania 
and  Burlington  freight  stations ;  the  widen- 
ing of  Canal  Street  from  eighty  to  one  hun- 
dred feet ;  the  building  of  the  Monroe 
Street  bridge ;  the  double-level  Kinzie 
Street  bridge  and  raised  approach ;  the  wid- 
ening of  Polk  and  Taylor  Street  viaducts 
from  forty  to  eighty  feet ;  and  the  construc- 
tion of  new  bridge  approaches  at  every  in- 
tersection from  Washington  to  Roosevelt 
Road.  This  mammoth  work,  which  was 
progressiing  favorably  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  war,  has  been  vigorously  resumed,  and 
$8,000,000  will  be  expended  upon  it  this 
year,  including  a  start  on  the  station. 

The  west  side  postofnce  site  appropria- 


tion which  provided  for  a  two-block  site  on 
Canal  Street  between  the  Union  and  North- 
western Stations,  was  passed  by  the  House 
of  Representatives  and  was  in  the  Senate 
when  our  country  entered  the  war,  and  all 
appropriation  bills  of  this  character  went 
into  the  Senate  wastebasket.  This  matter 
will  be  revived  in  the  next  session  of  Con- 
gress. 

The  forest  preserve  commissioners  of 
Cook  County  have  acquired  upwards  of 
15,000  acres  of  forest  lands,  stretching  all 
the  way  from  the  Skokie  Valley  on  the 
north  to  Chicago  Heights  on  the  south.  Ten 
thousand  acres  additional  have  been  marked 
by  the  commissioners  for  condemnation. 

The  state  good  roads  $60,000,000  bond 
issue,  recently  passed,  will  make  possible 
large  good  road  work  in  the  vicinity  of  Chi- 
cago and  the  forest  preserves. 

The  Plan  Commission  has  recommended 
the  opening  of  Rogers  Avenue  to  complete 
a  great  circuit  from  Peterson  Avenue  and 
the  lake  north  to  22nd  Street  and  beyond 
on  the  south.  It  has  recommended  a 
special  study  of  zoning  and  housing,  and 
bills  for  both  of  these  branches  of  city 
planning  were  passed  at  the  last  session  of 
the  Illinois  legislature. 


Copyright,  The  Commercial   Club  of  Chicago. 

THE  PROPOSED   CIVIC  CENTER  SQUARE,   SHOWING   THE 
GROUP    OF    SURROUNDING-    BUILDINGS,    CROWNED    BY 
THE  CENTRAL  DOME. 


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MAP    OF    CHICAGO    PLAN    SHOWING    PLAN    TO    UTILIZE    THE  CITY'S  WASTE  MATTfR 

IN  CREATING  LAKE  FRONT  PARK  LANDS.        — From  the  Collection  of  the   Chicago  Plan  Commission. 


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Lake     Front     Development 


(PUBLISHER'S  NOTE:  In  the  opinion  of  the  publisher,  the  most 
beneficial  feature  in  the  varioui  improvement  recommendations  of  the 
Chicago  Plan  Commission  is  the  development  proposed  for  the  south 
shore  lake  front.  Acco;  cling  to  the  published  reports  of  the  Plan  Com- 
mission five  miles  of  lake  front  parkland.*  can  be  created  for  nothing 
mereJy  by  using  the  city's  annual  product  of  waste  material.  Because 
of  its  great  economic,  business,  health  and  humanitarian  interest,  the 
editor  quotes  below  extracts  from  the  Commission's  report  entitled 
"Chicago  Can  Get  Fifty  Million  Dollars  for  Nothing.") 


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FIFTY  Million  Dollars!  That  is  the 
magnificent  sum  which  can  be  added 
to  the  wealth  of  Chicago  by  develop- 
ing the  South  Shore  Lake  Front  Parks. 

More  than  forty-six  million  dollars' 
worth  of  land  ready  for  park  development ! 

More  than  three  million  dollars  in  cash 
put  in  the  treasury  of  the  city! 

Nearly  thirteen  hundred  acres  added  to 
the  city's  park  area! 

Greater  wealth  !  Better  health !  A  finer 
and  more  attractive  Chicago ! 

And — best  of  all — these  park  lands,  ready 
for  development,  can  be  provided  without 
its  costing  the  citizens,  the  taxpayers  or  the 
city  one  single  cent! 

Of  course,  there  will  be  an  initial  ex- 
pense for  the  construction  of  retaining 
walls,  which,  however,  will  be  repaid  by 
the  revenue  derived. 

All  that  Chicago  needs  to  do  to  secure 
this  remarkable  benefit  for  all  the  people 
'  is  to  get  busy. 

What  is  needed  is  to  follow  the  years  of 
planning,  of  desiring,  and  talking,  with  a 
period  of  action. 

Read  on  and  see  how  easy  it  will  be  to 
complete  the  work,  how  plain  and  practical 
is  the  plan  for  these  fine  new  parks. 

Read  on  and  see  how  Chicago,  by  using 
its  waste  material,  which  is  even  now  cost- 
ing the  taxpayers  large  sums  for  its  dis- 
posal, can  be  at  once  made  an  asset  and 
source  of  revenue. 


Right  now — today — the  city  of  Chicago 
is  face  to  face  with  the  serious  problem  of 
disposing  of  its  building  waste,  excavated 
earth,  ashes  and  street  sweepings.  There 
can  be  no  possible  pollution  of  water  with 
the  waste  material  deposited  behind  prop- 
erly constructed  bulkheads.  Every  dump- 
ing ground  in  the  thickly  populated  sections 
is  filled.  It  will  cost  the  taxpayers  mil- 
lions to  dispose  of  these  wastes  in  the  fu- 
ture unless  cheap  means  of  handling  them 
are  devised  now,  as  afforded  on  the  lake 
front.  This  does  not  include  the  increase 
of  waste  material  due  to  increased  popula- 
tion and  the  possible  construction  of  sub- 
ways. This  increase  will  shorten  the  time 
for  the  construction  of  the  park  land,  and 
will  materially  lessen  the  expense  of  sub- 
way construction. 

It  is  clear  on  the  face  of  the  map  on 
Page  12  how  easily  this  waste  material  can 
be  used  on  the  South  Shore  lake  front. 

It  can  be  taken  quickly  by  wagon  from 
the  most  crowded  home  and  factory  areas, 
either  to  the  lake  front  direct  or  to  stations 
on  the  north  and  south  branches  of  the 
river,  thence  to  be  transported  by  barges  to 
the  park  sites. 

A  most  careful  study  of  all  the  facts  by 
the  best  experts  on  this  subject  shows 
that — 

In  five  years,  by  using  Chicago's  annual 
waste  product  of  3,069,861  cubic  yards, 
15,349,305  cubic  yards  can  be  had.  This 


Copyriyht,  '1  ne  Uommercial  Club  of  Chicago.     . 

BIRD'S  EYE  VIEW  AT  NIGHT  OF  GRANT  PARK,  CHICAGO,   THE     FACADE     OF     THE     CITY,     THE 
PROPOSED  HARBOR,  AND    THE  LAGOONS  OF  THE  PROPOSED   PARK   ON  THE   SOUTH  SHORE 
From  a  painting  by  Jules   Guerin. 


M A K E     CHI C A  GO     ATTRACTIVE 


Page  Fifteen 


will  build  the  inner  park  lands.  Of  this 
material  1,500,000  cubic  yards  per  year,  or 
a  total  of  7,500,000  cubic  yards,  can  be  had 
from  private  contractors,  who  will  pay  into 
the  city  treasury  the  sum  of  $1,275,000  for 
the  right  of  dumping  their  material  on  city 
land. 

In  seven  years,  by  using  Chicago's  annual 
waste  product,  a  total  of  21,489,027  cubic 
yards  can  be  had.  This  will  build  the  outer 
park  lands,  and  the  city  can  get  a  revenue 
of  $1,734,000  from  dumping  privileges. 

By  these  plans  the  entire  park  lands  can 
be  built  in  twelve  years. 

RESULT:  1,280  acres  of  park  lands 
FOR  NOTHING— worth,  according  to  the 
experts  of  the  Chicago  Real  Estate  Board, 
the  tremendous  sum  of  $46,000,000,  plus  a 
total  of  $3.009,000  poured  into  the  city 
treasury. 

If  the  citizens  desire  to  have  the  park 
lands  created  more  quickly  than  by  the 
"twelve-year-something-for-nothing"  plan, 
an  ideal  combination  plan  is  presented 
herein. 

By  that  plan,  combining  dredging  with 
waste  disposal,  it  is  shown  that  if  only  two 
dredges  are  used  in  connection  with  the 
use  of  waste  material,  the  1,280  acres  in 
both  parks  can  be  made  in  a  little  over  eight 
years. 

If  that  plan  should  be  adopted,  the  cost  of 
dredging  would  be  only  $277,000  more  than 
the  revenue  received. 

If  five  dredges  were  used,  supplementing 
the  waste  deposit,  the  total  lands  could  be 
made  in  six  years,  at  a  net  cost  to  the  city 
of  $1,085,000. 

By  the  combination  ''dredging-with- 
waste-disposal"  plan,  the  slight  net  cost  of 
$277,000  to  the  city  over  the  first  "for- 
nothing"  plan  is  accounted  for  by  the  fact 
that  naturally  the  revenue  decreases  in 
proportion  as  time  is  saved  in  the  use  of 
dredges  in  making  the  fill. 

A  third  plan  is  provided  which  shows 
that  the  entire  1,280  acres  can  be  completed 
in  about  ten  years  by  dredging  and  without 


the  use  of  any  waste  material  whatever,  at 
a  cost  to  the  city  of  $7,860,000.  In  this 
plan  the  time  of  the  fill  can  be  lessened  in 
proportion  to  the  number  of  dredges  used, 
the  cost  of  the  work  remaining  the  same. 

This  summary  of  facts  deals  only  with 
the  dollars-and-cents'  side  of  this  vast 
project. 

The  three  plans  are  submited  to  show 
clearly  and  unassailably  that- 
First  :  The  people  of  Chicago  can  have 
their  much-needed  Lake  Front  park  land 
in  twelve  years  for  nothing,  plus  a  revenue, 
by  using  only  Chicago's  waste  material, 
and 

Second :  That  they  can  be  had  in  eight 
years  at  a  trivial  cost,  by  combining  dredg- 
ing and  materials  disposal,  and 

Third :  That  they  can  be  had  in  six 
years  at  a  cost  which  is  insignificant  to  our 
great  city,  even  if  no  waste  material  at  all 
is  used. 

The  cost,  however,  of  public  playgrounds 
for  the  benefit  of  all  of  our  people  drops 
into  insignificance  when  compared  with  the 
priceless  value  of  safeguarding  the  health 
of  our  men,  women  and  children,  and  the 
knowledge  that  we  are  doing  our  full  duty 
in  creating  conditions  which  will  increase 
happiness,  elevate  morals  and  produce  bet- 
ter citizens. 

The  physique  of  man  in  large  cities  is 
deteriorating,  and  it  has  been  reported  that 
75  per  cent  of  those  recently  examined  for 
military  duty  have  been  found  inefficient. 
Appalling!  Is  it  not  time  to  stop  and 
ponder  ? 

We  persistently  agitate,  but  not  with 
enough  vigor,  the  preservation  of  our- ma- 
terial assets.  Our  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren are  our  greatest  national  assets.  Light 
and  air  are  hygienically  basic.  Healthful 
amusement,  fun  and  recreation  are  the 
greatest  lubricants  for  physical  welfare, 
and  the  greatest  protection  for  moral 
health. 

How  can  these  be  safeguarded  and  made 
more  efficient  ? 


Copyright,  The  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago. 

SECTION  I  OF  THE  ORIGINAL  LAKE  SHORE  PLAN  FROM   CHICAGO  AVENUE  ON  THE  NORTH 
TO  35TH  STREET  ON  THE  SOUTH,  PROPOSED  ISLAND  PARK  AND  LAGOON;  ALSO  FIELD 
MUSEUM  AND  NEW  ILLINOIS  CENTRAL  RAILWAY  STATION  AT  ROOSEVELT  ROAD 


Copyright,  The  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago. 

SECTION  IT  OF  THE  LAKE  SHORE  PLAN  SHOWING  CONTINUATION 

OF  PLAN  FROM  S5TH  STREET  TO  JACKSON  PARK 


MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACTIVE 


Page  Nineteen 


By  creating  more  parks — large  and  small 
—  more  play-grounds  -  -  more  bathing 
beaches — and  more  community  centers. 

In  1880  we  were  second  among  the  large 
cities  of  the  United  States  in  park  area. 
Today  we  are  in  eighth  place.  The  stand- 
ard of  health  experts  is  one  acre  of  park 
space  for  each  one  hundred  people.  Chi- 
cago has  only  one  acre  to  each  519  per- 
sons. 

With  1,280  acres  of  new  park  land  to  be 
had  for  nothing,  how  can  further  delay  be 
explained  or  justified  to  the  people? 

The  wealth  of  a  community  fixes  the 
scope  of  the  public  improvements ;  hence 
the  importance  of  capitalizing  every  avail- 
able asset.  Calling  Chicago  an  attractive 
metropolitan  city  does  not  make  it  so. 

How  much  longer  shall  Chicago  be  de- 
prived of  the  incalculable  commercial  value 
of  these  Lake  Front  Parks?  That  is  up 
to  the  citizens.  Hundreds  of  millions  of 
dollars  annually  follow  the  great  tide  of 
travel  to  the  attractive  spots  of  the  world. 
Build  these  parks,  and  they  will  bring  mil- 
lions of  dollars  annually  to  the  people  of 
Chicago. 

Chicago— a  lake  port — center  of  pop- 
ulation of  the  United  States — terminus  of 
one  hundred  thousand  miles  of  railroads, 
with  50,000,000  people  within  a  night's 
ride — if  she  will  exert  herself  and  promptly 
complete  the  tasks  before  her,  she  will  be- 
come one  of  the  greatest  Meccas  in  the 
world  for  tourists. 

Paris  received  $1,640,560  in  two  months 
from  American  travelers  alone,  for  hotel 
accommodations,  theater  tickets  and  cab 


fares.    This  takes  no  account  of  purchases. 

New  York  City  estimates  a  revenue  of 
one  hundred  million  dollars  per  month 
from  its  two  million  visitors. 

Berlin,  by  making  herself  more  attrac- 
tive and  interesting,  so  increased  the  num- 
ber of  her  visitors  that  the  year  before 
the  war  they  equaled  those  of  Paris 

Chicago  can  have  her  full  share  of  the 
vast  revenue  constantly  flowing  to  world 
cities  from  the  tourist  public,  but  only  by 
utilizing  all  of  the  opportunities  within  her 
grasp. 

In  addition  to  the  revenue  from  tourists, 
there  is  also  the  vast  saving  to  be  made. 
Soon  the  city  dumps  will  be  full.  Unless 
we  then  use  the  waste  to  build  the  South 
Shore  Lake  Front  land,  Chicago  will  have 
to  pay  the  annual  cost  of  transporting  the 
3,069,861  cubic  yards  to  points  outside  the 
city;  and  this  amount  will  increase  with 
the  city's  growth.  The  cost  of  its  trans- 
portation will  be  greater  than  the  cost  of 
creating  these  park  lands,  whatever  proc- 
ess is  employed. 

On  the  one  hand  it  will  cost  millions  to 
dispose  of  valuable  waste  material,  with 
no  return.  On  the  other  hand  it  will  cost 
nothing  to  utilize  this  material,  with  not 
only  the  return  of  fifty  million  dollars  in 
land  and  revenue,  but  also  a  far  greater 
return  in  the  health  and  contentment  of  our 
citizens. 

It  is  wickedly  wasteful  of  valuable  ma- 
terial, priceless  health  and  vastly  increased 
public  wealth  to  delay  the  prompt  starting 
of  the  lake  front  plans. 


A  SECTION  OF  MICHIGAN  AVENUE  AND  ADAMS  STREET  SHOWING  ORCHESTRA  HALL, 

THE  PULLMAN  BUILDING,  THE  PEOPLE'S  GAS,  LIGHT  AND  COKE  CO.'S  BUILDING, 

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Make      Chicago  Attractive 

Healthful     and  Convenient 

(Reconstruction    Platform     of     the  Chicago    Plan     Commission) 


CHICAGO  is  now  face  to  face  with 
the  reconstruction  period,  but  has 
made  no  preliminary  preparation. 
Where  yesterday  was  the  wigwam,  today 
is  the  national  center  of  population,  com- 
merce, education,  music  and  constructive 
art.  Our  beloved  city — in  the  front  rank 
of  patriotic  devotion — ministering  to  na- 
tional needs — supplying  without  stint  men, 
money  and  material — center  of  Red  Cross 
activities,  not  forgetting  to  serve  human- 
itv — allowed  its  war  endeavors  to  over- 


shadow the  need  for  making  ceaseless  effort 
to  conserve  the  health,  general  well-being 
and  effectiveness  of  its  own  people. 

Valuable  time  has  been  lost,  but  it  is  not 
yet  too  late  to  replace  procrastination  with 
our  vigorous  and  enthusiastic  support  of 
the  reconstruction  program  of  the  Chicago 
Plan  Commission. 

OUR    RECONSTRUCTION    DUTY 

Chicago's  first  reconstruction  duty  is 
toward  its  returning  soldiers.  Work  must 
be  provided  for  them,  and  the  proper  em- 


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RIO    DE    JANEIRO,    BATSIDE    BOULEVARD    EXTENDING 
AROUND    THE    WATERFRONT   OF   ENTIRE    CITY  AND 
SUBURBS. 

— From  the  Collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission 


ployment  of  labor  at  adequate  wages  should 
be  our  first  consideration.  The  best  oppor- 
tunity for  this  is  work  on  Chicago's  great 
public  improvements. 

Work  is  the  demand  and  the  right  of  the 
laboring  class — not  charity. 

The  reconstruction  period  will  require  at 
least  five  years,  during  which  grave  prob- 
lems will  confront  us.  An  equitable  solu- 
tion can  only  be  achieved  by  a  patriotic 
and  united  citizenry. 

FUNDAMENTAL  NEEDS 

The  war  intensified  rather  than  dimmed 
the  need  for  public  improvements  in  Chi- 
cago— manifestly  necessary  before — agi- 
tated for  many  years — and  upon  some  of 
which  work  had  been  started. 

The  public  health,  ample  means  for 
healthful  recreation,  convenience  of  traffic 
in  the  streets,  relief  of  the  congested  dis- 
tricts and  facilitation  of  railway  terminal 
and  food  handling,  which  were  of  funda- 


mental importance  before  the  war,  have 
now  become  matters  of  absolute  necessity. 
No  people  of  any  city  will  labor  harder 
or  sacrifice  more  for  their  city — their 
larger  home— than  will  the  people  of  Chi- 
cago. It  is  this  civic  patriotism — almost 
as  strong  as  our  love  of  country — that  in 
the  past  has  urged  Chicago  to  great  achieve- 
ment. What  Chicago  wills  to  have  cre- 
ated will  be  created;  and  what  it  wants 
,done  will  be  done.  All  we  now  need  is  the 
spark  of  ignition.  Vim  and  vigor  lead  to 
Victory. 

CHICAGO  OUR   LARGER   HOME 

There  is  eloquence  in  stone  and  steel ; 
there  is  inspiration  in  good  architecture ; 
there  is  character  building  in  good  sur- 
roundings. Our  city  as  our  larger  home 
does  much  to  mold  our  character.  Un- 
known and  unrealized  by  us,  the  silent 
forces  of  our  environment  are  working 
upon  us  and  upon  each  of  our  fellows 


AVENUE  BOIS  DE  BOULOGNE,  PARIS, 
WEST  FROM  THE  ARC  DE  TRIOMPHS 


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STATUE  OF  CHARLES  XII  SURROUNDED  BY  FOUR 

MORTARS   CAPTURED   IN  BATTLE,  STOCKHOLM 

FYom  the  collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission.     Shown  for  purposes 
of  illustrating  a  point  vn  City  Planning  as  utilized  by  other  cities. 


Chicago  has  a  good  citizenry — a  patriotic 
citizenry — it  is  proud  of  its  citizens  and 
its  citizens  are  proud  of  their  city.  They 
know  that  attractive  development  and  good 
citizenship  go  hand  in  hand  and  they  want 
to  see  their  city  made  the  best  it  can  be. 

The  Chicago  Plan  Commission  calls  up- 
on all  public  officials  and  public  utility  ex- 
ecutives to  cease  all  unnecessary  bickering 
and  get  together  now  in  a  spirit  of  co-oper- 
tion  and  civic  patriotism  to  save  Chicago 
in  this  its  greatest  hour  of  need  and  its 
moment  of  greatest  opportunity. 

The  Chicago  Plan  Commission  calls  up- 
on all  citizens  to  get  behind  its  platform  of 
unprecedented  economic  benefits  to  the 
whole  city.  Chicago  is  fortunate  indeed 
in  having  a  scientifically  worked  out  plan 
that  exactly  fits  the  present  emergency,  and 
which  will  inure  immeasurably  to  the 


health,  happiness  and  financial  prosperity 
of  all  the  people. 

This  is  an  epochal  time  in  the  life  of 
Chicago*  great  in  opportunity  and  vital  in 
need. 

THE   PROGRAM 

The  planks  of  the  Reconstruction  Plat- 
form of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission  are : 

VIGOROUS    PROSECUTION    OF    WORK    ALREADY 
STARTED  ON — 

1.  Roosevelt  Road. 

2.  West  Side  Railway  Terminals;  wid- 
ening of  Canal  Street  north  of  Roosevelt 
Road   via   double-deck   Kinzie    Street    and 
bridge,  to  Orleans  Street. 

3.  Michigan  Avenue. 

4.  The  new  outer  circuit  from  the  lake 
on  the  North  Side  via  Thorndale,  Elmdale, 
Peterson  and  Rogers  Avenue  and  the  B.  & 
O.  abandoned  right-of-way  along  the  line 


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THE  CENTER  OF  CHICAGO,  LOOKING  WEST,  SHOWING 
GRANT  PARK,  THE  HARBOR  AND   THE  CIVIC  CENTER 


of  the  old  Indian  boundary  (already  ac- 
quired) and  along  the  Desplaines  River 
road  through  Forest  Preserves  south  to 
Twenty-second  Street  and  eventually  fur- 
ther south.  (This  important  route,  cross- 
ing prominent  section  and  half-section  line 
streets,  and  passing  many  public  institu- 
tions, has  been  begun  and  only  requires  the 
opening,  at  small  expense,  by  the  city  of 
Rogers  Avenue  for  legs  than  two  miles.) 

URGING    IMMEDIATE    SETTLEMENT    OF 

5.  Controversy   between    the    City   and 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company. 

6.  Raihvay  Terminal  Commission  prob- 
lem,  with   passage   of   ordinance   covering 
the  Lake  Front  development. 

7.  River     Straightening — the     Railway 
Terminal  Commission  should  scrupulously 
bear  in  mind  the  importance  of  straighten- 
ing the  river  from  Polk  Street  to  Eighteenth 
Street,  enabling  the  opening  of  South  Side 
streets  through  the  terminal  area. 


8.  South  Side  Raihvay  Passenger  Ter- 
minal Question — removal  of  these  terminals 
to   the   new    Illinois   Central   terminal,   en- 
abling   (with   the   river    straightened)    the 
opening  of  Market,  Wells,  LaSalle,  Frank- 
lin and  Dearborn  Streets. 

START  IMMEDIATELY  TO   CARRY  OUT— 

9.  Lake  Front  Plans — from  Grant  Park 
to  Jackson  Park.     Acquire  $50,000.000  of 
land    and    revenue     for    nothing.     Create 
dumping  grounds  for  the  city  and  at  the 
same  time  acquire  1,280  acres  of  land  which 
will     provide     the     people     with     bathing 
beaches,  picnic  grounds,  and  other  recrea- 
tional   features,    such    as    rowing,  motor- 
boat  races,  etc. 

10.  Ogden  Avenue  Extension. 

11.  Widening    of    Western    Avenue    to 
TOO  feet  its  entire  length  where  it  is  now 
less  than  that  width,  particularly  from  Sev- 
enty-fifth   Street,   south,   where   it   is   now 
onlv  fiftv  feet  wide. 


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PLAN  OF  BOULEVARD  ON  MICHIGAN  AVENUE   VIEW  LOOKING  NORTH  FROM  A  POINT  EAST 

OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


12.  Improvement    of   Ashland    Avenue 
and  Robey  Street.    The  next  traction  ordi- 
nance  should  contain  a  provision   for  the 
improvement  of  these  two  streets,  making 
them  through  thoroughfares. 

13.  South    Water  Street   Improvement 
— South  Water  Street  should  be  reclaimed 
for  public  use  and  connected  with  the  up- 
per level  of  Michigan  Avenue.     This,  con- 
servatively speaking,  would  save  over  $6,- 
000,000  annually — enough  in  a  single  year 
to  pay  for  the  entire  improvement — in  food 
supply  costs  to  all  people  and  in  traffic  de- 
lays affecting  the  entire  city. 

14.  Outer  Drive.     Connect  Grant  and 
Lincoln  Parks  via  the  lake  front,  thus  re- 
lieving downtown  congestion,  and  making 
a  direct  connection  between  Jackson  Park, 
the  new  Lake  Front  park,  Grant  Park,  the 
Municipal  Pier  and  Lincoln  Park. 

15.  West  Side  Post  Office.    The  needed 
additional   $4,250.000  to   acquire  the   two- 


block  site  between  Madison  and  Adams 
Streets,  facing  on  Canal,  between  the 
Northwestern  Depot  and  the  proposed  new 
Union  Passenger  Station,  where  62  per  cent 
of  the  mail  of  Chicago  is  handled,  must 
be  immediately  appropriated  by  the  Fed- 
eral Government.  Chicago,  the  greatest 
postal  center  of  the  United  States,  has  been 
deprived  of  adequate  postal  facilities  for 
the  past  forty  years. 

AGGRESSIVE  CO-OPERATION  ON— 

16.  City's  Bridge  Program.  This  should 
be  vigorously  pushed  to  completion. 

17.  Traction  Question.    This  should  be 
settled  by   giving   Chicago   a   metropolitan 
rapid  transit  system. 

18.  Forest    Preserves.     Aid    in    every 
way  the  Forest  Preserve  Commissioners  in 
securing  the  remainder  of   forest  areas  it 
has  selected  for  purchase,  thus  giving  the 
people  on  all  sides  of  the  city  playgrounds 
of  vast  worth  to  their  health  and  happiness. 


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ROSIO  SQUARE  WITH  STATUE  OF  PETER  IV— NICKNAMED 

ROLY  POLY  SQUARE— LISBON,  PORTUGAL 

FYom  the  collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission.      Illustrating    a    beautiful 
square    formation,  showing  the  value  of  statues  in  business  sections. 


19.  Good  Roads  Program  of  the  State. 
Aid  the  creation  of  an  invaluable  network 
of  leading  highways  to  and  from  Chicago. 

20.  New    City    Charter.      Press    upon 
forthcoming      Constitutional      Convention 
need  of  bestowing  greater  powers  upon  the 
City  of  Chicago.     Without  greater  powers 
Chicago  cannot  grow  from  a  provincial  to 
a  metropolitan  city. 

21.  Drainage  Canal  Boulevards.    Study 
the  question  of  boulevards  along  the  Drain- 
age Canal  to  connect  with  the  park  system. 

22.  Zoning  and  Housing.     These  prob- 
lems are  of  large  importance,  but  require 
special  study. 

23.  Excess  Condemnation  Law.    A  law 
should  be  supported  which  will  enable  Chi- 
cago  to    eliminate    many   abuses    resulting 
from  the  present  method  of  making  public 
improvements    and    receive    instead    large 


benefits.  Vital  and  important  improve- 
ments, however,  should  not  be  delayed  for 
such  a  law,  as  it  may  take  years  to  secure 
it. 

Unanimously  approved  by  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commis- 
sion, December  6,  1918. 

Charles  H.  Wacker,  Chairman. 
Frank  I.  Bennett,  Vice-Chairman. 
Walter  D.  Moody,  Managing  Director. 
Edward  B.  Butler      Wm.  N.  Pelouze 
John  Powers 
Daniel  J.   Schuyler 
James   Simpson 
John  F.  Smulski 
Charles  H.  Thorne 
Harvey  T.  Weeks 
Harry  A.  Wheeler 
Walter  H.  Wilson 
Michael  Zimmer 


John  J.  Coughlin 
Frederic  A.  Delano 
A.  C.  Bartlett 
Clyde  M.  Carr 
John  V.  Farwell 
Albert  J.  Fisher 
Theodore  K.  Long 
Julius  Rosemvald 
Joy  Morton 


XEW  ORLEANS  POST  OFFICE  — From  Chicago  Plan   Commission  Collection. 

Showing  a  type  of  building  in  use  in  our  Southern  Metropolis. 


Chicago     Postal      Needs 

(PUBLISHER'S  NOTE. — The  recent  statements  of  Postmaster  William  B.  Carllle  con- 
cerning Chicago's  postal  situation  bring  renewed  interest  in  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission'* 
arguments  for  a  new  post  olHce  issued  in  1915.  The  postmaster  has  just  appointed  the  fol- 
lowing committee  to  take  up  the  question  of  adequately  providing  for  the  postal  needs  of 
Chicago  for  the  next  two  decade:  Mayor  William  Hale  Thompson,  chairman  ex-offlclo; 
Charles  H.  Wacker,  chairman;  Wm.  Buford  Carlile,  vice-chairman;  J.  Ogden  Armour. 
Edward  B.  Butler,  John  V.  Farwell,  Dorr  E.  Felt,  Samuel  M.  Hastings,  Edmund  D.  Hulbert, 
Maurice  F.  Kavanagh,  John  J.  Touhy,  Dennis  F.  Kelly,  Harry  H.  Merrick,  Julius  Rosenwald, 
John  W.  Scott,  Walter  D.  Moody,  John  G.  Shedd,  Albert  A.  Sprague  II,  Robert  J.  Thome, 
Samuel  Insull,  Harry  A.  Wheeler,  and  B.  M.  Winston. 

The  postmaster  has  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  twenty-five  years  ago  there  were 
fifty  real  post  offices  in  the  210  miles  over  which  Chicago  has  spread,  and  now  there  Is  but 
one  pcstoffice  and  fifty  classified  stations.  In  that  time  the  postal  receipts  have  grown  from 
$5,000,000  to  $35,000,000  a  year.  To  adequately  take  care  of  Chicago's  expanding  postal 
needs,  the  postmaster  has  recommended  three  post  office  centers  and  a  terminal  for  parcel 
post  and  second-class  mail  matter.  The  first  site  recommended  by  the  postmaster  is  the 
two-block  site  on  Canal  street  between  the  Union  and  Northwestern  depots,  where  62  per 
cent  of  all  Chicago's  mail  is  handled,  the  purchase  of  which  site  has  been  urged  by  the  Plan 
Commission  for  the  reasons  given  in  th3  following  article) : 


FOR  ten  years  United   States  govern- 
ment officials  and  the  business  inter- 
ests of  Chicago  have  been  attempting 
to  secure  the  selection  of  a  satisfactory  west 
side  post  office  site.     During  all  this  time 
there  has  been  considerable  correspondence 
on  this  subject  with  the  Treasury  Depart- 


ment. Although  different  sites  have  been 
recommended,  at  no  time  has  the  position 
regarding  the  needed  land  area  for  an  ade- 
quate site  been  changed.  From  the  begin- 
ning, the  recommendation  of  two  blocks  has 
remained  unaltered. 

With  reference  to  this  subject,  a  compre- 


POST  OFFICE,  DENVER — Condemnation  1907  :  building  completed  1916 
When  the  Denver  post  office  site  was  purchased,  at  a  cost  of  $500,000,  the 
postal  receipts  were  only  $930,513.  On  the  same  basis,  Chicago,  with  postal 
receipts  of  $25,000,000,  would  have  a  postal  site  appropriation  of  $13,400,000. 
The  area  of  the  Denver  site  is  98,400  sq.  ft.  Chicago  would  have  a  site  area 
of  twenty  blocks,  based  on  the  proportionate  postal  receipts  of  Denver  and 
Chicago.  The  site  recommended  for  Chicago  is  two  blocks,  not  twenty.  The 
appropriation  asked  is  six  millions,  not  thirteen 


kVM 


POST  OFFICE  NEW  YORK — From  Chicago  Plan  Coitwnission  Collection. 
The  area  recommended  for  the  Chicago  post  office  site  is  205,301  sq.  ft.  This 
is  one-third  less  than  the  site  area  of  the  new  Pennsylvania  terminal  post 
office  in  New  York.  New  York  has  three  main  post  offices,  the  aggregate  area 
of  ichich  is  546,460  sq.  ft.  Notwithstanding  in  1912  the  postal  receipts  of 
New  York  exceeded  those  of  Chicago  by  only  $3,365,058.  In  1915  Chicago's 
receipts  exceeded  New  York's  in  some  months  by  $30,000  a  month. 


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hensive  letter  dated  August  16,  1911,  was 
addressed  to  the  then  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  the  Honorable  Franklin  Mac- 
Veagh,  signed  by  Mr.  Charles  H.  Thorne, 
chairman  of  the  post  office  site  committee 
of  The  Commercial  Club,  which  organiza- 
tion was  responsible  for  the  Plan  of  Chi- 
cago. That  communication  was  prior  to 
the  action  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission 
on  this  matter  and  recommended  blocks  29 
and  44,  with  a  combined  net  area  of  250,187 
square  feet. 

On  the  subject  of  that  site  Mr.  Thome's 
letter  says: 

"The  report  of  a  committee  during 
Postmaster  Busse's  term  of  office 
(1908)  says  that  by  1916  the  require- 
ments of  the  Chicago  post  office  will 
be  700,000  square  feet. 

"We  see  no  reason  to  question  this 
estimate  and,  indeed,  looking  ahead  for 
the  short  period  of  twenty-five  years, 
we  believe  that  even  the  larger  area 
now  recommended  will  then  be 
thought  too  small. 

"We  believe  that  even  the  larger 
area  proposed  will  be  inadequate  un- 
less augmented  by  sub-stations,  trans- 
fer stations,  tube  systems  and  every 
mode  of  transportation  which  can  be 
devised." 

Working  independently  and  following 
entirely  different  lines  of  investigation,  the 
conclusions  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commis- 
sion in  recommending  two  blocks  are  iden- 
tical with  the  arguments  advanced  by  The 
Commercial  Club  Committee  in  Mr 
Thome's  letter. 

The  Commercial  Club's  recommendation 
of  blocks  29  and  44,  in  conformity  with 
the  Plan  of  Chicago,  was  prior  to  the  fix- 
ing of  the  West  Side  terminal  site  by  city 
ordinance.  The  Chicago  Plan's  recommen- 
dation of  blocks  49  and  50  conforms  to  the 
terminal  location.  Naturally,  it  is  also  in 
harmony  with  the  central  street  system  in 
the  Plan  of  Chicago,  which  plan,  at  the  re- 
quest of  The  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago, 


was  entrusted  for  study  and  development 
to  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission  by  an  act 
of  the  City  Council  of  Chicago. 

Consideration  by  the  government  of  a 
west  side  site  should  primarily  embrace  a 
comprehensive  study  of  traffic  and  the  pres- 
ent central  street  layout,  in  connection  with 
the  recommendations  for  relief  proposed 
in  the  Plan  of  Chicago.  Tt  is  of  the  utmost 
importance  to  the  joint  business  interests 
of  the  government  and  the  city  that  the  new 
post  office  be  located  to  fit  in  with  the  cen- 
tral street  system  in  the  Plan  of  Chicago, 
work  upon  which  is  now  in  an  advanced 
stage  of  procedure  in  court.  The  abandoned 
site  recommendation  by  The  Commercial 
Club  located  the  post  office  on  the  proposed 
main  east  and  west  axis,  Congress  Street 
extended,  and  in  proximity  to  the  second 
western  quadrangle  boundary,  Halsted 
Street.  The  present  recommendation  lo- 
cates the  site  on  Canal  Street,  the  western 
boundry  of  the  inner  quadrangle,  formed 
by  it,  Roosevelt  Road,  Michigan  Avenue 
and  Chicago  Avenue.  This  quadrangle  is 
intended  to  relieve  congestion  in  the  so- 
called  "loop"  district. 

The  location  of  the  postoffice  on  the 
quadrangle  at  the  recommended  Canal 
Street  site  between  the  West  Side  termi- 
nals will  afford  far  greater  accessibility  be- 
tween the  post  office,  the  center  of  the  city 
and  the  various  other  railway  terminals 
than  would  any  other  available  site. 

The  growth  in  the  receipts  and  tonnage 
of  the  Chicago  post  office  for  the  past 
twenty  years  establishes  unassailably  the 
fact  that  even  a  ten-story  building  on  a 
single  block  would  be  practically  insuffi- 
cient by  the  time  it  was  ready  for  occu- 
pancy. Then  Chicago  would  again  be  face 
to  face  with  the  same  inadequate  facilities 
it  has  suffered  for  the  past  thirty  years. 

It  is  not  within  the  province  of  the  Chi- 
cago Plan  Commission  to  render  an  opinion 
on  horizontal  versus  vertical  methods  of 
mail  operation.  That  is  a  matter  to  be  de- 
cided by  the  government  authorities,  as  en- 


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POST  OFFICE,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO 

Original  half  building  erected  1856;  completed  3912. 


-From    Chicago    Plan    Commission    Collection. 


gineers  can  devise  ways  to  handle  tonnage 
by  either  principle.  This  is  strictly  a  mat- 
ter of  engineering  opinion,  as  there  has  been 
insufficient  experience  to  warrant  positive 
recommendations  as  to  the  preferable 
method. 

Whichever  method  may  be  determined  as 
best,  it  could  doubtless  be  made  to  operate 
as  satisfactorily  in  a  building  of  moderate 
height  on  two  blocks  as  in  a  tall  building  on 
one  block.  The  Chicago  Plan  Commission 
is  not  arguing  that  question.  It  is,  however, 
unalterably  opposed  to  the  selection  of  a 
single  block  because  investigation  proves 
that  an  adequate  post  office  cannot  be  built 
on  any  single  available  block. 

All  west  side  blocks  within  two  blocks 
of  the  railroad  terminals  are  of  a  nearly 
uniform  area.  They  are  398  by  320  feet. 


each  having  an  area  of  about  127,360  square 
feet.  The  largest  block  is  7  per  cent  smaller 
than  the  site  of  the  present  post  office.  If 
on  one  of  these  blocks  a  ten-story  post  office 
is  erected  from  building  line  to  building 
line,  without  light  shafts  or  corridors  on 
the  lower  seven  floors,  and  also  without 
provision  for  ground  floor  loading  room,  it 
would  give  a  total  of  only  967,934  square 
feet. 

On  the  other  hand,  if  there  is  deducted 
the  entire  first  floor  for  loading  room,  there 
would  remain  863,499  square  feet,  and  if, 
in  addition,  there  is  deducted  a  necessary 
amount  for  light  shafts,  there  would  be 
available  only  771,801  square  feet. 

For  proper  perspective  and  architectural 
effect,  as  well  as  to  provide  wagon  ap- 
proaches on  government  property  to  re- 


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lieve  the  stress  of  traffic  in  the  streets,  the 
post  office  building  should  be  set  back  from 
the  building  line  one-fifth  of  the  total  area 
This  has  been  the  practice  in  the  recent  con- 
struction of  postoffices  in  other  cities.  If 
thus  set  back  and  no  deductions  are  made 
for  loading  room  or  light  shafts,  there 
would  be  available  only  792,372  square  feet. 
If,  in  addition,  there  is  deducted  room  for 
light  shafts  and  the  entire  first  floor  for 
loading  room,  there  would  be  available  only 
624,420  square  feet.  The  above  figures  are 
all  on  the  basis  of  a  ten-story  building  on  a 
single  available  block. 

The  total  space  occupied  in  the  present 
post  office  is  423,134  square  feet.  If  the 
past  ten  years'  increase  in  tonnage  is  main- 
tained, ten  years  hence  there  will  be  re- 
quired 846,268  square  feet,  or  221,848 
square  feet  in  excess  of  the  total  available 
square  footage  of  a  properly  constructed 
ten-story  building  on  a  single  block.  But 
if,  on  the  contrary,  a  ten-story  building  on 
a  single  block  is  erected  solidly  from  build- 
ing line  to  building  line,  the  next  ten  years' 
increase  would  absorb,  by  the  time  the 
building  is  ready  for  occupancy,  the  entire 
available  space  of  863,499  square  feet  left 
after  deducting  the  first  floor  for  loading 
room.  There  would  then  be  no  possibility 
for  expansion. 

Mr.  Thome's  letter  states : 

"In  the  early  eighties  a  post  office  build- 
ing was  built  upon  the  site  of  the  present 
building  and  was  torn  down  about  ten  years 
later." 

Another  ten  years  was  occupied  in  the 
erection  of  the  present  building,  during 
which  the  post  office  business  was  accom- 
modated in  a  makeshift  building  on  the  lake 
front.  The  present  building — inadequate 
before  it  was  finished — is  not  yet  quite  ten 
years  old.  Hence,  Mr.  Secretary,  it  is  ob- 
vious from  this  condition  of  affairs,  men- 
acing to  the  commerce  of  Chicago  and  the 
important  postal  business  of  the  govern- 
ment in  the  world's  fourth  city  and  the 
second  in  the  United  States,  that  the  Chi- 


cago Plan  Commission,  in  its  recommenda- 
tion of  two  blocks  on  Canal  Street,  is  de- 
sirous of  securing  adequate  postal  facili- 
ties in  its  new  building,  not  for  the  next 
ten  years,  but  has  in  mind,  on  the  contrary, 
the  needs  of  the  post  office  for  a  long  time 
to  come." 

The  postmaster  in  1908,  as  stated  in  Mr. 
Thome's  letter,  estimated  that  in  1916  the 
requirements  of  the  post  office  would  be 
700,000  square  feet. 

If  the  room  at  the  railway  terminals  now 
used  as  branch  post  office  stations — where 
large  firms  send  their  mail  matter  direct 
instead  of  to  the  main  post  office — were 
added  to  the  present  post  office  area,  we 
would  now  exceed  in  the  amount  of  space 
used  the  total  square  footage  that  in  1908 
was  predicted  would  be  needed  in  1916. 

Present  1915  local  post  office  officials  es- 
timate that  775,000  square  feet  will  be  re- 
quired in  the  new  building. 

Chicago's  successive  post  office  construc- 
tion in  tne  past  is  clearly  indicated  in  the 
lack  of  foresight  shown  in  the  following 
facts : 

In  1896  the  floor  space  of  the  old  post 
office  was\ii8,9o8  square  feet.  The  post 
office  authorities  estimated  that  244,806 
square  feej  would  be  needed  for  the  new 
building  constructed  in  1906.  The  actual 
square  footage  in  the  building  when  com- 
pleted was  246,204  square  feet.  This,  it 
was  immediately  found,  was  entirely  inade- 
quate. It  has  been  added  to  by  changes  in 
the  interior  of  the  building,  until  today 
the  total  floor  space  is  423,134  square  feet. 
This  is  an  increase  of  100  per  cent  more 
space  than  was  estimated  would  be  needed 
ten  years  before,  when  the  new  building 
was  planned,  and  takes  no  cognizance  of 
the  various  branch  stations  at  the  railroad 
terminals. 

If  the  present  post  office  is,  in  ten  years, 
50  per  cent  too  small — after  being  con- 
structed on  an  estimated  increase  of  no 
per  cent  over  the  old  building — it  is  quite 
evident  that  in  ten  years  after  the  con- 


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POSSIBILITIES  OF  DEVELOPING  NORTH  MICHIGAN 
AVENUE. 


Drawing  by  Vernon  Howe  Bailey 


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struction  of  the  proposed  new  building  the 
floor  space  required  will  be  1,500,000  square 
feet,  based  on  the  same  rate  of  increase  as 
heretofore,  instead  of  775,000  square  feet, 
as  officially  estimated.  This  would  require 
a  twenty-story  building  if  only  a  single 
block  is  secured  now. 

Economy  alone  would  seem  to  demand 
the  present  acquisition  of  sufficient  area  to 
avoid  the  unnecessary  expense  of  secur- 
ing additional  adjacent  land  at  prohibitive 
cost,  due  to  the  inevitable  rise  in  real  estate 
values,  in  the  next  ten  years,  in  the  section 
where  it  is  proposed  to  locate  the  post  office. 
Economy  could  be  had,  and  the  country's 
business  dispatched,  if  farsightedness  were 
employed  in  postal  construction.  This  is  the 
more  apparent  because  of  the  increase  of 
parcel  post  business.  The  increase  in  the 
postal  receipts  for  the  past  twenty  years 
augurs  a  future  postal  business  almost  be- 
yond the  power  of  anyone  to  forecast.  The 
growth  in  the  receipts  during  that  time  is 
amazing. 

In  1896,  when  the  old  post  office  was 
torn  down,  Chicago's  postal  receipts  were 
$5,204,236.  In  1914,  twenty  years  later, 
the  receipts  were  $25,000,000,  an  increase 
of  about  500  per  cent.  When  the  present 
post  office  was  occupied  in  1906  the  postal 
receipts  were  $12,885,149,  so  that  in  the 
past  ten  years  they  have  exactly  doubled. 
If  the  same  ratio  of  increase  is  maintained 
in  the  future — and  the  same  length  of  time 
is  required  in  building  a  new  post  office — by 
the  time  the  new  post  office  is  ready  for 
use  the  postal  receipts  of  Chicago  will  be 
$50,000,000  annually,  and  in  twenty-five 
years  the  receipts  will  have  reached  the 
enormous  proportion  of  $125,000,000  an- 
nually. 

Contrasting  Chicago's  present  postal  re- 
ceipts of  $25,00,000  with  the  postal  receipts 
of  other  cities,  in  relation  to  the  purchase 
price  of  sites,  illustrates  how  wholly  out 
of  proportion  is  the  appropriation  for  the 
Chicago  site,  compared  with  site  appropria- 
tions for  other  cities.  If  the  appropriation 


for  the  Chicago  site  had  been  made  on  the 
same  basis  as  for  other  cities  in  relation 
to  their  postal  receipts,  Chicago  would  have 
$25,182,472  on  the  basis  of  Philadelphia; 
$17,308,800  on  the  Pittsburgh  basis;  $16,- 
500,000  on  the  Baltimore  basis ;  $14,664,500 
on  the  San  Francisco  basis;  $13,400,000  on 
the  Denver  basis;  $5,508,597  on  the  Cleve- 
land basis;  $4,851,196  on  the  Boston  basis; 
$3,420,000  on  the  Minneapolis  basis;  and 
$3,333,333  on  the  basis  of  Atlanta. 

The  key  to  this  comparison  between  Chi- 
cago and  nine  leading  cities  is  contained  in 
the  postal  receipts  at  the  time  their  respec- 
tive sites  were  selected  versus  the  purchase 
price  of  the  sites,  and  is  as  follows: 

City  Receipts    Cost  of  Site 

Philadelphia    $1,568,669    $1,573,867 

Pittsburgh   500,000          346,176 

Baltimore 827,102          550,000 

San    Francisco 1,772,867       1,055,000 

Denver    93°,5I3          500,000 

Cleveland    2,649,112          586,021 

Boston    6,858.520       1,329,095 

Minneapolis 2,554,129         349,000 

Atlanta 1,500,000         200,000 

Doubtless  a  more  convincing  table  of 
comparison  could  be  had  in  figuring  the 
tonnage  of  the  Chicago  office  in  relation 
to  the  total  square  footage  of  post  office 
space  versus  the  tonnage  of  other  cities 
and  the  square  footage  provided.  This 
comparison  we  are  unable  to  show  at  this 
time  because  we  have  not  been  able  to  ob- 
tain the  tonnage  and  total  square  footage 
of  post  office  space  from  all  the  cities 
named. 

Enough  has  been  revealed,  however,  to 
positively  ask  why  the  present  appropria- 
tion of  $1,750,000  should  be  made  to  cover 
the  purchase  of  a  site  which  is  clearly 
shown  to  be  not  only  inadequate  but  mani- 
festly out  of  proportion  with  the  provision 
made  for  cities  where  the  postal  receipts, 
tonnage  and  population  are  only  a  frac- 
tion of  that  in  Chicago?  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  this  will  not  even  buy  one  block. 

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location  for  a  new  post  office  in  Chicago, 
the  local  postmaster,  in  an  address  before 
the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce, 
made  an  exhaustive  statement,  in  which  he 
said  that  the  entire  handling  of  the  mails 
would  depend  upon  the  site  selected. 

There  can  be  no  possible  question  as  to 
the  advantage  in  postal  operation  of  the  two 
blocks  recommended  by  the  Plan  Commis- 
sion, which  adjoin  the  Northwestern  and 
Union  terminals  and  are  directly  connected 
with  both,  where  is  handled  62  per  cent  of 
Chicago's  entire  mail  tonnage.  The  loca- 
tion of  the  post  office  between  these  two 
depots  means  the  maximum  convenience  in 
postal  operation,  in  dispatch  in  mail  ser- 
vice, and  in  financial  economy  in  handling 
the  postal  business.  A  location  that  would 
mean  the  quick  dispatch  of  the  mails  and 
a  tremendous  saving  in  other  ways  to  the 
government  certainly  justifies,  it  would 
seem,  an  initial  expenditure  for  an  adequate 
site. 

Chicago,  in  view  of  her  important  rela- 
tionship to  the  post  office  service  of  the 
central  west,  should  be  provided  with  am- 
ple facilities  and  space  for  the  continual 
increase  which  is  sure  to  follow,  and  these 
facilities  should  not  be  experimental  in  any 
sense.  The  great  commerce  of  the  Missis- 
sippi Valley  will  be  aided  or  hindered  in 
large  measure  by  the  spirit  in  which  the 
Federal  Government  embraces  this  present 
opportunity  to  make  the  necessity  of  today 
a  virtue  for  tomorrow,  in  creating  a  postal 
agency  of  the  highest  and  most  certain 
efficiency  at  this  point. 

Practical  postal  operation  should  never 
be  subordinated  to  beauty  of  architecture. 
On  the  aesthetic  side,  however,  what  has 
ever  more  appealed  to  the  conscious  ideals 
of  individuals  of  all  countries  than  the  dig- 
nity of  the  nation  as  expressed  in  the  sub- 
stantial beauty  of  governmental  buildings 
which,  since  time  immemorial,  have  in  all 
countries  typified  classic  design?  Never- 
theless, it  is  realized  that  local  arguments 
must  also  be  practical ;  hence  the  Chicago 


Plan  Commission  has  endeavored  to  review 
the  subject  from  the  standpoint  of  the  prac- 
tical present  and  future  necessities  of  Chi- 
cago. 

Now  in  summing  up  in  brief  the  reasons 
of  the  Plan  Commission  favoring  the  selec- 
tion of  the  Canal  Street  site  of  two  blocks, 
at  the  outset  two  all-important  facts  should 
promptly  engage  attention : 

First,  that  space  around  the  buildings 
should  be  provided  for  mail  transmitted  by 
wagons  and  trucks,  which  on  this  site  can 
be  admirably  provided  on  the  lower  level. 

Second,  it  is  provided  by  the  west  side 
terminal  ordinances  that  Canal  Street  shall 
be  a  two-level  thoroughfare  and  shall  be 
widened  from  80  to  100  feet.  The  advantage 
of  a  two-level  street  in  the  construction  of 
a  post  office  building  and  the  operation  of 
the  mail  service  is  of  such  signal  impor- 
tance in  connection  with  the  accessibility 
of  this  site  as  to  alone  justify  its  selection. 

The  recommendations  of  the  Plan  Com- 
mission favoring  blocks  49  and  50  on  Canal 
Street  are  based  on  the  following  reasons: 

1.  Accessibility.   The  relation  of  the  post 
office  to  the   street   system   to   afford  the 
greatest  degree  of  accessibility  to  and  from 
all  parts  of  the  city,  especially  the  central 
business     district,     commonly     called     the 
"loop,"  and  to  the  present  Federal  Building. 

2.  Street  area.    Fronting  on  a  two-level 
Canal   Street,  in  conjunction  with  eighty- 
foot-wide  thoroughfares  at  Madison,  Clin- 
ton and  Adams,  it  has  the  advantage  of 
facing  parallel  streets  of  two  different  levels 
— Canal  and  Clinton — allowing  direct  mail 
wagon  approach  or  entrances  by  easy  in- 
clines to  two  floors,  the  second  floor  from 
Canal  Street  and  the  first  floor  from  Clin- 
ton Street. 

3.  Advantages  of  two-level  Canal  Street. 
This  affords  direct  connection  across  Mon- 
roe Street  between  the  two  blocks  on  both 
the  first  and  second  floors.  This  connection 
could  be  provided  on  the  first  floor  level 
under  Monroe  Street  near  Canal,  and  on 
the   second   floor  level   by   a  bridge   over 


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Monroe  Street  near  Clinton  Street.  This 
means  a  great  advantage  in  the  internal 
working  of  the  post  office,  which  would  not 
be  possible  if  located  on  streets  of  a  uni- 
form level  where  no  connection  would  be 
possible  on  the  first  floor.  The  total  area 
of  blocks  49  and  50  is  205,301  square  feet. 
Surrounding  them  there  is  46  per  cent  more 
street  area  than  around  any  two  blocks  in 
that  immediate  locality,  caused  by  the 
34,400  square  feet  on  both  the  upper  and 
lower  level  of  Canal  Street  and  the  surface 
level  on  Clinton  Street. 

4.  Proximity   to   two   railroad   terminals 
where  62  per  cent  of  the  total  mail  tonnage 
of     Chicago     is     handled     will     result     in 
maximum  efficiency.     It  affords  the  most 
direct  possible  connection   with  both  rail- 
road stations,  both  on  the  street  surface  and 
by  sub-surface.     Direct  mail  connection  is 
possible  between  the  railroads  entering  the 
Union  Station  and  the  recommended  site. 

5.  It  affords  the  most  direct  and  shortest 
connection  by  either  wagon  or  tube  with 
the  present  post  office,  through  which  mail 
service  for  the  loop  district  will  be  handled. 
It  has  the  further  advantage  of  permitting 
maximum  ease  and  efficiency  of  postal  op- 


eration between  the  post  office  and  the  two 
terminals  by  the  tube  or  belt  system. 

6.  The  maximum  financial   economy  in 
handling  the  mails  is  assured. 

7.  The  dispatch  in  the  mail  service  that 
it  makes  possible  through  the  facility  of  re- 
ceiving,   distributing    and    dispatching    the 
mails.    This  is  enhanced  by  the  location  of 
the  post  office  on  Canal  Street,  which  is  to 
be  widened  to  100  feet  and  connected  with 
the  north  side  by  a  two-level  street  and 
bridge  at  Kinzie  Street.    This,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Chicago  Avenue,  Roosevelt  Road 
widened  to  108  feet,  and  the  widening  and 
improvement  of  all  east-and-west  viaducts 
across  the   Chicago  River  in  the  terminal 
district,  forms  a  great  distributing  circuit — 
making  the  post  office  accessible  from  the 
south,  west  and  north  without  entering  the 
loop    and    meeting    the    street    congestion. 

8.  The  final  reasons  for  the  selection  of 
blocks  49  and  50  on  Canal  street,  as  rec- 
ommended by  the  Chicago  Plan  Commis- 
sion— in  addition  to  their  natural  advan- 
tages because  of  location — are  Chicago's  fu- 
ture requirements,  based  on  past  experience 
in    the    rapid   growth    of    Chicago's    com- 
merce, population  and  postal  business. 


NEW    UNION    TERMINAL   STATION  NOW   BEING    CONSTRUCTED   ON  CANAL 
STREET  BETWEEN    ADAMS    STREET    AND    JACKSON    BOULEVARD. 


LA  PIAZZI  DEI  MARTIRI,  NAPLES 

From  the  collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission.     Another  splendid  setting  for  a  monument. 


What     of     Chicago? 

Seed    Thoughts    for    Citizens 


IN  view  of  the  urban  tendency  of  the 
times,  and  the  growing  and  controlling 
influence  of  the  great  centers,  the  fu- 
ture of  our  city  is  certainly  a  timely  sub- 
ject for  thought  and  discussion.  The  cities 
of  today,  as.  centers  of  thought,  culture  and 
action,  have  the  vastest  range  of  influence 
and  potentiality,  so  that  the  protection  of 
the  citizens  with  sanitary  surroundings  and 
inspiring  environment  means  not  only  sav- 
ing the  youth  and  strengthening  the  citi- 
zenry but  directly  influencing  the  nation  for 
advance  and  betterment. 

As  the  best  humanitarians  hold  that  man 
builds  upon  the  basis  of  character,  so  it  is 
that  cities  in  their  physical  planning,  as  it 


affects  their  surroundings,  must  provide  for 
the  finer  things  that  tend  to  make  the  mind 
as  well  as  the  body  rich.  The  city  plan,  in 
view  of  these  conditions,  becomes  one  of 
the  most  important  and  far-reaching  influ- 
ences of  the  times. 

Economic  conditions  growing  out  of  the 
war  make  absolutely  imperative  the  need 
for  conservation  in  its  largest  and  broad- 
est sense  as  it  affects  the  public  welfare.  As 
an  essential  prerequisite  to  that  end  there 
should  be  conserved  time,  money,  material, 
physical  strength,  and  all  those  elements 
which  make  for  the  best  economic  develop- 
ment. In  the  consideration  of  this  all-im- 
portant question  city  planning  looms  up  as 


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TRAFALGAR    SQUARE,  EAST  LONDON,   WITH    MONUMENT  IN 

COMMEMORATION  OF   THE  GREAT   VICTORY  OF  LORD   NELSON 

From   the   collection   of   the   Chicago   Plan    Commission  showing  that  we 
could  have  more  of  these  monuments  in  the  business  sections  of  Chicago. 


the  most  desirable  means  to  attainment, 
especially  the  benefits  proposed  in  the  Plan 
of  Chicago. 

These  are  of  fundamental  importance  be- 
cause they  are  concerned  with  the  eco- 
nomic handling  and  distribution  of  food- 
stuffs, cheap  and  easy  means  of  transporta- 
tion in  all  of  its  branches,  vastly  larger  pro- 
vision for  healthful  recreation  for  all  the 
people,  relief  from  congestion  in  the 
crowded  districts,  safeguarding  the  public 
health  in  every  possible  manner,  and  the 
saving  of  scores  of  millions  of  dollars  by 
properly  building  today  so  the  future  will 
not  be  another  chapter  of  wasteful  destruc- 
tion in  rebuilding  to  repair  the  mistakes 
of  shortsightedness. 

What  is  done  now  for  the  future  must  be 
done  right.  Chicago  in  its  present  physical 
state  is  a  glaring  example  of  the  lack  of 
foresight  and  judicious  planning.  These 


defects  may  be  remedied  now  without  bur- 
densome tax  upon  the  people.  Tomorrow 
will  be  too  late  to  save  untold  millions  in 
money  and  to  secure  our  people  and  our 
commerce  against  deterioration  and  decay. 

This  is  Chicago's  gravest  hour  of  need 
and  its  moment  of  greatest  opportunity. 
Chicago's  first  reconstruction  duty  is  to- 
ward its  returning  soldiers.  Work  must  be 
provided  for  them,  and  the  proper  employ- 
ment of  labor  should  be  our  first  consider- 
ation. The  best  opportunity  for  this  is  work 
on  Chicago's  great  public  improvements. 

Chicago  today  stands  at  the  threshold  of 
a  great  future.  Ever  since  the  Civil  War 
the  people  of  our  country  have  been  flock- 
ing in  ever  increasing  numbers  to  the  cities 
and  to  Chicago.  New  problems  in  social 
science  have  been  created  because  of  the 
bringing  together  of  people  of  different 
families  and  different  races,  and  these  prob- 


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NAPLES,   ITALY,    SHOWING    WATER    FRONT    AND 
MUNICIPAL   PARK,   FORMERLY   THE   NATIONAL   PARK. 

— From   Chicago  Plan   Commission   Collection. 


lems  must  be  solved  by  our  municipalities. 
From  this  contact  are  coming  new  needs. 
It  is  necessary  to  promote  happiness  and 
content  among  city  people,  and  to  interest 
them  in  the  development  of  a  proper  moral 
and  religious  life  in  their  communities. 

What  are  we,  as  citizens,  to  do  to  pro- 
mote the  future  well-being  of  our  city? 
First  of  all  we  must  realize  that  each  of  us 
has  duties  to  perform  toward  our  city  and 
rights  to  claim  from  it.  Unless  we  know 
those  duties  and  those  rights  we  can  never 
act  a  just  and  independent  part.  When 
sufficient  community  patriotism  has  been 
aroused,  our  city  can  substitute  order  for 
disorder,  and  reason,  common  sense  and 
action  for  negligence,  indifference  and 
inertia. 

City    building    is    man    building.      Man. 


physically  and  mentally  well-developed,  is 
the  city's  greatest  asset,  and  must  be  pre- 
served. More  than  ever,  now  that  the  war 
is  over,  do  our  citizens  require  the  health- 
giving  privileges  of  more  light  and  air  in 
their  homes  and  places  of  business,  more 
and  larger  parks,  more  playgrounds  and 
forest  preserves,  and  increased  bathing 
beach  and  recreational  facilities. 

Modern  people  are  realizing  more  and 
more  each  year  that  city  planning  is  one  of 
the  most  important  problems  which  our 
cities  must  solve.  This  is  true  because  the 
guiding  of  the  physical  growth  of  a  city 
along  practical  as  well  as  attractive  lines 
is  really  fundamental.  City  planning  un- 
derlies all  commercial  and  social  problems. 
Because  it  affects  the  happiness  and  pros- 
perity of  all  our  citizens,  and  of  millions 


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THE   QUEEN  VICTORIA  MEMORIAL  IN  FRONT  OF  BUCKINGHAM  PALACE,  LONDON 

the   collection   of   the   Chicago   Plan   Commission  showing  an  ideal  situation  for  a  memorial. 


the  human  race  under  bad  conditions  of  city 
life  is  one  of  the  great  problems  of  the 
age.  The  deficient  and  delinquent  records 
of  Chicago,  as  well  as  the  records  of  pre- 
mature mortality,  show  that  there  are  cer- 
tain districts  in  which  misery,  vice  and 
early  death  seem  congested.  Those  sec- 
tions furnish  an  unanswerable  indictment 
of  the  conditions  of  life  under  which  we 
permit  some  of  our  people  to  exist. 

Proper  housing,  proper  sanitation,  air 
and  sunlight  are  the  first  rights  of  human- 
ity, and  when  we  permit  them  to  be  denied 
we  must  accept  responsibility  for  the  in- 
evitable result. 

Dirt,  grime  and  sordid  conditions  are  not 
part  of  municipal  success.  They  are,  rather, 
evidences  of  failure  to  grasp  the  fundamen- 
tal truth  that  men  who  are  happy,  whose 
lives  are  cast  in  pleasant  places,  who  are 
clean  of  body  and  clean  of  mind,  are  the 
men  who  best  do  things.  A  city  built  on 
rational  and  modern  lines  means  more  of 
comfort,  more  of  health,  more  of  oppor- 


yet  to  have  a  home  among  us,  the  work  of 
the  Chicago  Plan  Commission  should  be 
studied  and  encouraged  by  every  Chicagoan. 

Chicago  is  a  great  crucible  into  which 
has  been  poured  people,  customs  and  tradi- 
tions from  a  field  that  covers  the  earth, 
and  from  which  is  emerging  the  final  prod- 
uct of  ten  centuries  of  political  struggle — 
American  democracy.  As  heir  to  the  ages, 
Chicago  is  working  out  the  problems  of 
self-government  and  rights  of  man  that  had 
their  inception  with  the  dawn  of  history  in 
the  forests  of  Friesland  and  Jutland,  and 
came  down  to  us  step  by  step  through  cen- 
turies of  trouble,  always  triumphant,  never 
completed. 

Chicago  has  a  good  citizenry — a  patri- 
otic citizenry — it  is  proud  of  its  citizens, 
and  its  citizens  are  proud  of  their  city. 
They  know  that  attractive  development,  and 
good  citizenship  go  hand  in  hand,  an  I  they 
want  to  see  their  city  made  the  best  it  can 
be. 

The  physical  and  moral  deterioration  of 


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MICHIGAN  AVENUE  FROM  PARK  ROW  IN 
ALREADY   IMPROVED 


tunity  for  physical,  mental  and  moral  de- 
velopment of  its  people. 

The  inspiration  for  a  city-wide  plan  of 
physical  development  along  orderly  and 
scientific  lines  was  an  outgrowth  of  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition.  Eight  years 
were  devoted  by  the  members  of  The  Com- 
mercial Club  of  Chicago,  and  the  country's 
best  technicians  under  the  direction  of  the 
late  Daniel  Hudson  Burnham,  to  perfect- 
ing the  Plan  of  Chicago.  When  completed 
ten  years  ago,  the  Plan  was  presented  to  the 
city  as  a  gift  from  The  Commercial  Club, 
and  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission  was  cre- 
ated by  the  City  Council  for  its  study  and 
advancement.  With  its  more  than  three 
hundred  members  from  every  section  of 
Chicago,  the  Plan  Commission  is  truly  rep- 
resentative of  the  entire  city  and  every  ele- 
ment in  it,  although  it  is  non-political,  non- 
partisan,  knows  no  creeds,  and  serves  no 
purposes  other  than  the  common  good  of 
the  whole  municipality. 


ILLUSTRATING  HOW  CHICAGO   HAS 

Original  Owned  by  Chicago  Historical  Society 

The  Plan  of  Chicago  is  a  great,  construc- 
tive work.  It  is  practical,  sane  and  ef- 
ficient, and  knows  neither  the  untenable 
heights  of  irrational  fancy  and  extrava- 
gance, nor  the  constricted  depths  of  parsi- 
mony and  self-interest.  It  offers  a  closely 
reasoned,  carefully  studied,  well  balanced 
solution  which  provides  generously  alike 
for  all  the  community.  The  changing  con- 
ditions of  city  life  demand  now  more  than/ 
ever  that  intelligent  action  be  taken  to  im- 
prove living  conditions  in  our  municipal- 
ities. 

The  projects  embodied  in  the  Plan  of 
Chicago  have  a  most_important  bearing 
upon  the  inauguration  of  hygienic  meas- 
ures for  the  benefit  of  our  citizens  and  for 
the  amelioration  of  living  conditions.  How- 
ever, the  consideration  of  these  questions 
must  be  left  to  experts,  whose  duty  it  should 
be  to  ascertain  the  causes  of  distress  and 
illness,  recommend  preventive  measures, 
and  suggest  means  for  disseminating  knowl- 


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OLD   butt!    UbAKBORN,  7S5C,  FOHMEHLY  K11UATED   ON    THE   SOUTH   SIDE   OF   THE 
CHICAGO   RIVER  AT   MICHIGAN  AVENUE   AND   RIVER   STREET. 

Courtesy  Rand-McNally  Souvenir  Guide  to  Chicago 


edge  of  the  results  so  ascertained,  which, 
when  thoroughly  understood,  will  awaken 
a  great  demand  for  the  necessary  legislation 
to  remedy  the  ill  conditions  shown  to  exist, 
and  to  provide  for  more  public  aid. 

The  Plan  of  Chicago  is  jiot_  a  panacea 
for  all  the  civic  ills  that  beset  our  city,  and 
it  in  no  wise  conflicts  with  other  worthy 
and  necessary  measures  of  relief.  Its  com- 
pletion will  mean  purer  air,  better  light., 
more  breathing  spaces  and  additional  places 
of  recreation;  therefore  it  should  have  the 
active  support  and  co-operation  of  all  who 
are  interested  in  bringing  a  ray  of  sunshine 
into  the  lives  of  the  less  fortunate. 

jrheJPlan  aims  simply  at  the  moral  up- 
lifting and  physical  development  of  Chij^ 
cago  for  the  good  of  not  one  class  of  peo- 
ple or  of  one  section  of  the  city,  but  for 
the  good  of  all  Chicagoans — for  the  good 
of  all  Chicago.  It  means  betterment  of 
general  living  conditions  for  our  poor,  re- 
claiming our  lake  front  for  the  people,  in- 


creasing our  park  areas  and  public  play- 
grounds, creating  additional  bathing  beaches 
and  pleasure  piers,  and  a  scientific  devel- 
opment of  the  arteries  between  the  differ- 
ent sections  of  the  city — north,  west  and 
south. 

.It  aims  to  develop  the  enduring  commer- 
cial prosperity  of  the  city;  and  in  order  to 
do  that  all  the  elements  which  go  to  make 
up  a  great  city  must  be  considered,  just  as 
all  exalted  characters  must  be  well-rounded 
men,  men  who  are  developed  on  all  sides 
of  their  character,  physically,  mentally, 
morally  and  spiritually.  And  so  large  cities, 
if  they  wish  to  be  great,  must  develop  on 
all  sides;  must  develop  their  commerce, 
their  health,  their  beauty  and  their  morals. 

The  Plan  is  a  great  practical  ideal  for 
orderly  physical  development.  Naturally 
it  must  be  worked  out  piece  by  piece.  The 
idea  for  creating  order  out  of  chaos  should 
be  taken  up  by  the  entire  clergy  of  the  city ; 
all  school  teachers  in  public,  parochial  and 


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private  schools ;  by  the  professors  in  all  de- 
partments of  our  colleges;  by  clerks  in 
stores  and  offices ;  by  factory  employes  and 
laborers  of  all  classes.  Every  Chicagoan, 
neighbor  to  neighbor,  should  catch  the  Chi- 
cago Plan  spirit  and  talk  about  it.  It  is 
the  one  Chicago  issue  that  all  Chicago  can 
and  should  unite  on — a  non- political,  non- 
partisan,  common-sense  plan  to  harmonize 
some  of  the  loveliness  and  unloveliness  of 
physical  Chicago,  an  idea  to  make  a  prac- 
tical, beautiful  piece  of  finished  fabric  out 
of  Chicago's  crazy-quilt. 

A  well-planned  city  means  a  city  in  which 
business  can  be  most  economically  and  suc- 
cessfully conducted.  Planning  for  good 
public  health,  long  life  and  more  leisure  and 
contentment  for  all  is  necessary  if  we  are 
to  continue  in  Chicago  as  a  strong,  virile 
and  capable  people.  Beautiful  parks,  fine 
monuments,  well  laid  out  streets,  relief 
from  noise,  dirt  and  confusion — all  these 
things  and  many  others  contemplated  in  the 
Plan  of  Chicago — are  agencies  that  make 
not  only  for  the  future  greatness  of  the 


city  but  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  its 
people. 

Commercially  the  Plan  has  to  do  with 
the  regular  arrangement  of  the  streets 
within  the  city.  Its  aim  is  to  save  time  and 
effort  in  traffic  between  the  various  sec- 
tions. Socially  it  has  to  do  with  adequate 
provision  for  the  public  health.  This  is 
gained  through  the  best  location  of  parks 
and  playgrounds,  and  the  opening  to  light 
and  air  of  crowded  housing  districts.  A 
proper  city  plan  is  the  foundation  for  all 
social  and  commercial  advance. 

Orderliness  is  one  of  the  best  invest- 
ments a  city  can  make,  but  the  appeal  of 
the  Chicago  Plan  Commission  is  by  no 
means  entirely  a  commercial  appeal.  It  is, 
of  course,  a  practical  appeal,  to  secure  the 
interest  and  sympathy  of  a  most  practical 
people,  but  above  that  it  is  a  human  appeal, 
a  moral  appeal,  an  appeal  to  make  Chicago 
better  not  for  the  money  that  is  in  it,  but 
for  the  sake  of  the  higher  mental,  moral 
and  physical  people  that  a  perfectly  ar- 
ranged city  will  produce. 


NEW  ILLINOIS  CENTRAL  STATION 

As  it  will  appear  on  new  East  Twelfth  Street  and  Indiana 
Avenue  extended,  replacing  Park  Row,  with  new  Field  Museum 
on  the  lake  front  at  its  terminus. 


SOUTH    PLAZA    OF    THE    NEW    MICHIGAN    AVENUE 
LOOKING   SOUTH  FROM  BRIDGE   SHOWING 
POSSIBILITIES    FOR    ATTRACTIVE  DEVELOPMENT. 
Drawing  by  A.  N.  Rebori 


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1L 


THE  NEW  TWO-LEVEL  BRIDGE,  A  PART  OF  THE  MICHIGAN  AVENUE  BOULEVARD  LINK 

From  the  collection  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission 


When  the  United  States  became  involved 
in  the  great  war  fourteen  of  the  principal 
features  of  the  general  plan  were  either  un- 
der construction  or  well  advanced  in  legal 
procedure.  Within  a  month  after  the  sign- 
ing of  the  armistice  the  Chicago  Plan  Com- 
mission issued  a  "Reconstruction  Platform" 
which  deserves  the  hearty  support  and  co- 
operation of  every  citizen  of  our  great  city. 

When  the  Plan  is  finished,  the  remark- 
able destiny  of  Chicago  will  be  assured.  No 
other  city  of  modern  times  has  been  given 
a  Plan  so  comprehensive — one  that  pro- 
poses so  many  economic,  hygienic,  socio- 
logical, commercial  and  humanitarian  bene- 
fits— and  one  so  thoroughly  calculated  to 
meet  the  needs  of  a  vast  and  growing  pop- 
ufece. 

The    cost    of    public    playgrounds,    lake 


front  parks,  bathing  beaches,  forest  pre- 
serves and  similar  recreational  features  for 
the  benefit  of  all  our  people,  drops  into  in- 
significance when  compared  with  the  price- 
less value  of  safeguarding  the  health  of  our 
men,  women  and  children,  and  the  knowl- 
edge that  we  are  doing  our  full  duty  in  cre- 
ating conditions  which  will  increase  hap- 
piness, elevate  morals  and  produce  better 
citizens.  The  physique  of  people  in  large 
cities  is  deteriorating,  and  the  only  way  it 
can  be  safeguarded  and  made  more  efficient 
is  through  proper  provision  of  light  and  air, 
which  are  hygienically  basic,  and  healthful 
amusement,  fun  and  recreation,  which  are 
the  greatest  lubricants  for  physical  welfare 
and  the  greatest  protection  for  moral 
health. 

Our  country  went  to  war  to  preserve  to 


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A  VIEW  OF  MICHIGAN  AVENUE  LOOKING 
NORTH  ACROSS  GRANT  PARK. 

posterity  a  heritage  worthy  of  the  civiliza- 
tion of  our  day.  Democracy,  indeed,  must 
be  saved  for  future  generations,  but  with 
it  we  should  also  hand  down  the  ma- 
terial benefits  of  our  age.  It  is  false  econ- 
omy to  place  upon  them  the  burden  of  our 
neglect  of  opportunity.  The  needs  of  our 
people  must  be  met  in  this  day  if  vast  econ- 
omies are  to  be  conserved  in  the  future. 
Investments  in  public  betterments  cannot 
be  regarded  as  expenditures.  They  are 
economies.  The  expenditures  of  today  are 
the  economies  of  tomorrow. 

If  we  do  not  make  the  public  improve- 
ments which  are  necessities  today,  we  shall 
only  deprive  ourselves  and  not  conserve  the 
needs  of  the  future.  Such  a  course  would 
most  assuredly  subject  us  to  the  criticism 
of  posterity  for  what  could  be  termed  our 
extravagant  neglect.  We  must  not  cease 


to  regard  our  city  as  our  larger  home,  or 
neglect  to  advance  those  things  which  must 
be  done  to  advance  the  interests  of  our- 
selves, and  of  our  children  and  of  our  chil- 
dren's children.  The  war  has  caused  cities 
the  world  over  to  realize  that  with  the  loss 
of  ten  million  men  municipalities  must  do 
everything  they  can  to  preserve  and  build 
up  the  next  generation,  and  they  cannot 
afford  to  let  it  grow  up  in  insanitary  and 
disagreeable  surroundings. 

Conditions  which  make  for  good  health, 
good  order  and  good  citizenship  must  be 
made  clear  to  our  people.  The  needs  and 
possibilities  for  expansion  and  develop- 
ment of  community  life  under  proper  con- 
ditions must  be  outlined,  that  effort  under 
the  urge  of  civic  patriotism  may  be  prop- 
erly directed.  Our  people  must  be  led  to 
recognize  their  duty  of  looking  into  the 


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THE  GRANT  MONUMENT  IN  LINCOLN  PARK,  CHICAGO. 


future,  knowing  that  to  be  unmindful  of 
the  needs  of  days  to  come  is  to  be  unfaith- 
ful of  obligations  to  themselves,  their  com- 
munities and  posterity.  We  have  reached 
a  time  now  when  the  citizen,  to  do  his  duty, 
must  plan  for  the  welfare  of  coming  gen- 
erations. It  is  necessary  that  the  people 
realize  and  that  the  young  be  taught,  that 
the  really  great  work  of  the  world  today  is 
that  which  foresees  and  builds  for  the  fu- 
ture. 

There  is  another  and  deeper  motive  in 
planning  for  the  future  greatness  of  our 
city  than  its  splendid  material  upbuilding. 
This  is  of  significance  only  as  it  expresses 
the  actual  social,  intellectual  and  moral  up- 
building of  the  people,  and,  so  far  as,  in 
turn,  it  opens  the  way  for  further  develop- 
ment of  this  higher  type.  Who  is  there 
among  us  who  is  not  lifted  above  sordid 
industrial  existence  into  the  realm  of  the 


beautiful  and  ennobling  things  of  life  by 
attractive  surroundings  ? 

The  ideal  of  a  city,  however,  must  rise 
above  mere  commercial  and  industrial  su- 
premacy, taking  the  higher  ground  of  be- 
coming an  attractive,  composite  home  for 
its  residents  both  of  large  and  small  means, 
as  well  as  for  the  stranger  within  its  gates. 
While  the  wealthier  class  of  citizens  in  any 
community  can  build  up  beautiful  residen- 
tial sections  on  well  laid  out  avenues  and 
boulevards,  what  will  become  of  those  who 
have  neither  organization  nor  money  to  aid 
them  in  intelligently  planning  the  most 
meagre  comforts  of  ordinary  home  sur- 
roundings? The  interests  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  most  unfortunate  districts  must 
be  safeguarded. 

No  people  of  any  city  will  labor  harder 
or  sacrific  more  for  their  city — their  larger 
home — than  will  the  people  of  Chicago.  It 


UNIVERSITY  OF  H.UNOII 
tIBRARY 


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CLARENDON  BEACH 

Tens  of  thousands  in  the  water  at  Clarendon  Beach,  1916 ; 
23,000  bathers  have  visited  this  single  beach  in  one  day.  What 
better  argument  could  possibly  be  had  for  the  "Reclamation  of 
the  Lake  Front  for  the  People"  f 


is  this  civic  patriotism — almost  as  strong 
as  our  love  of  country — that  in  the  past  has 
urged  Chicago  to  great  achievement.  By 
harnessing  the  energy  of  every  Chicagoan 
in  the  years  that  have  gone  we  have  brought 
forth  civic  works  of  great  magnitude.  To- 
day all  the  world  knows  that  what  Chicago 
wills  to  have  created  will  be  created;  and 
what  it  wants  done  will  be  done. 

The  Chicago  Plan  Commission  is  endeav- 
oring to  cut  away  the  shackles  which  bind 
Chicago  so  that  our  city  may  be  free  to 
arise  and  effectively  exert  its  might  to  ful- 
fill its  ambition  to  be  the  best,  most  orderly, 
most  healthful,  most  convenient  and  most 
attractive  city  in  America. 

The  completion  of  the  improvements  in 
the  Plan  of  Chicago  will  cause  men  to  mar- 
vel that  such  physical  changes  can  be 


brought  about  within  their  city.  They  will 
be  astounded  when  a  section  once  backward 
in  solid  development  has  been  opened  up 
and  started  on  its  upward  way  by  so  simple 
a  method.  They  will  want  similar  changes 
all  over  the  city  and  will  force  them  to  be 
made. 

Men  in  the  mass  are  imitative — they  take 
inspiration  and  courage  from  a  good  ex- 
ample ;  they  follow  such  an  example,  and 
the  result  is  always  for  better  things.  There 
is  eloquence  in  stone  and  steel;  there  is  in- 
spiration in  good  architecture ;  there  is 
character  building  in  good  surroundings. 
Our  city  as  our  larger  home  does  much 
to  mold  our  character.  Unknown  and  un- 
realized by  us,  the  silent  forces  of  our  en- 
vironment are  working  upon  us  and  upon 
each  of  our  fellows. 


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The  Chicago  Spirit  is  at  work  among 
us ;  it  is  calling  upon  a  united  citizenship  to 
achieve  for  Chicago,  and  in  no  better  way 
is  that  spirit  manifesting  its  determined, 
unfaltering  and  triumphant  character  than 
in  the  hearty  and  effective  public  support 
of  the  Plan  of  Chicago  and  the  work  of 
the  Chicago  Plan  Commission. 

Henry  Drummond  said : 

"To  make  cities  is  what  we  are  here  for. 
For  the  city  is  strategic;  it  makes  the 
towns ;  the  towns  make  the  villages ;  the 
villages  make  the  country.  He  who  makes 
the  city  makes  the  world.  After  all,  though 
men  make  life,  it  is  the  cities  which  make 
men.  Whether  our  national  life  is  great  or 
mean,  whether  our  social  virtues  are  ma- 
ture or  stunted,  whether  our  sons  are  moral 
or  vicious,  whether  religion  is  possible  or 
impossible,  depends  upon  the  city." 

A  great  man  once  said: 

"An  individual  never  attains  any  very 
great  size,  mentally  nor  morally,  except  as 
he  attaches  himself  to  a  great  idea,  and  that 
idea,  being  worthy,  grows  with  him  until 
the  stature  of  the  man  becomes  equal  to  the 
stature  of  the  idea  to  which  he  has  attached 
himself." 

The  Ran  of  Chicago  is  Chicago^s_ notice^ 
to  the  world  that  the  indomitable  energy 
that  built  Chicago  in  a  generation  is  still 
ou  r^  energy ;  that  the  genius  that  created  the 
unrivaled  beauty  of  the  world's  greatest 
fair  is  still  our  genius ;  and,  above  all,  that 
the  spirit  that  has  made  progress  the  sym- 
bol of  our  commercial  life  has  stamped  "/ 


Will"  and  "We  Will"  upon  the  progress  of 
our  civic  life. 

It  is  certain  that  Chicago  is  to  continue 
to  remain  one  of  the  greatest  cities  on 
earth.  It  is  probable  that  Chicago  will  be- 
come the  world's  metropolis.  It  is  the  duty 
of  every  citizen  to  look  ahead  and  plan  for 
the  future  of  our  city,  watchfully  guard- 
ing its  rights,  and  hopefully  working  to 
build  Chicago  on  a  plan  that  will  make  cer- 
tain its  development  into  the  most  conveni- 
ent, attractive  and  healthful  city  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  world. 

Chicago  is  set  in  the  center  of  the  larg- 
est and  richest  centralized  territory  on 
earth.  We  have  a  city  where  commerce 
flows  to  and  fro  by  water  and  rail  with  an 
ease  and  economy  unmatched  by  any  other 
city.  We  have  unlimited  room  for  growth 
and  unlimited  supplies  of  cheap  building 
materials.  We  have  all  forces  known  work- 
ing to  promote  Chicago's  interest,  to  in- 
crease Chicago's  commerce,  and  to  extend 
the  trade  of  its  merchants  and  manufac- 
turers. 

Understanding  the  conditions  that  are 
giving  Chicago  the  opportunity  to  become 
probably  the  largest  city  of  the  world,  we 
can  all  clearly  see  that  it  is  our  duty  to  aid 
in  the  city-building,  man-building  work  of 
the  Chicago  Plan  Commission,  so  that  as 
Chicago  grows  into  the  largest  it  shall  also 
grow  into  the  best  ordered,  most  convenient 
and  attractive  city  in  the  world  and  the  one 
that  does  the  most  for  all  its  people. 


View  looking  north  of  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago  River 
showing  the  suggested  arrangement  of  streets  and  ways  for 
teaming  and  reception  of  freight  at  different  levels. 


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The  Reclamation  of   South  Water  Street 


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(PUBLISHER'S  NOTE:  The  report  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commis- 
sion made  public  in  191 7  affords  startling  evidence  at  the  tremendous 
economic  waste  in  the  existence  of  the  South  Water  Street  market  as 
at  present,  and  it  thows  how  the  people  of  Chicago  would  be  saved 
$6.000.000  a  year  by  reclaiming  the  street  for  public  use  and  removing 
the  market  to  a  more  advantageous  and  economic  site.  Following  are 
the  salient  features  taken  from  the  Plan  Commission's  report  which  the 
publisher  believes  every  citizen  and  taxpayer  of  the  city  of  Chicago 
should  acquaint  himself  with.) 


TO    complete    Chicago's   great   central 
district,  the  greatest  in  the  world, 
South    Water    Street    must    be    re- 
claimed for  all  the  people. 

South  Water  Street  can  be  made  into 
the  second  finest  thoroughfare  in  Chicago, 
equaled  by  none  except  Michigan  Avenue. 

It  will  reduce  the  "high  cost  of  living" 
by  saving  the  people  of  Chicago  $6,000,000 
annually — $3,482,400  on  waste  of  food- 
stuffs ;  $1,624,800  on  cost  of  handling  food- 
stuffs ;  $563,000  saving  to  commercial  inter- 
ests ;  $160,000  saving  in  time  by  reduced 
street  traffic  delays  and  $169,800  annual 
revenue  to  the  city. 

It  will  be  an  effective  distributor  of 
traffic  in  the  city's  heart,  and  will  reduce 
loop  congestion  16%,  by  removing  15,714 
vehicle  trips  per  day. 

It  will  add  two  new  through  east  and 
west  traffic  arteries,  the  lower  one  unob- 
structed by  cross  traffic. 

It  will  bring  State,  Dearborn,  Clark  and 
Wells  Streets  into  their  full  usefulness  by 
removing  the  present  clogging  by  peddlers' 
and  grocers'  wagons  between  Lake  and 
South  Water  Streets. 

It  is  a  simple  plan,  involves  no  legal  diffi- 
culties, is  not  prohibitive  in  cost  of  con- 
struction, and  will  save  in  a  single  year  an 
amount  equal  to  the  total  cost. 

It  will  greatly  increase  property  values, 
thereby  adding  to  the  taxable  property  of 


Chicago,  and  increasing  the  city's  revenue 
South  Water  Street  today  is  an  economic 
waste;   a   burdensome    charge   on   all   the 
people ;  a  drawback  to  Chicago's  progress ; 
obstructive  to  its  prosperity,  and  a  confla- 
gration danger  to  the  whole  Loop  district. 
South  Water  Street  is  a  physical  misfit. 
If   left  as   it   is,   it   must   forever   remain 
dwarfed,  destroying  its  own  usefulness. 

Imagine  a  condition  such  as  South  Water 
Street  is  today,  two  blocks  from  the  Grand 
Opera  House  in  Paris — two  blocks  from 
Trafalgar  Square  in  London — or  next  to 
the  Waldorf-Astoria  in  New  York.  Yet. 
South  Water  Street  is  only  two  blocks  from 
the  Chicago  City  Hall,  and  only  a  three- 
minute  walk  from  the  world's  busiest  retail 
shopping  district. 

It  is  a  lack  of  business  wisdom  to  delay 
its  speedy  reclamation,  and  the  fulfillment 
of  its  great  public  use. 

Here  is  the  way  to  change  South  Water 
Street  into  a  fine  highway  of  tremendous 
economic  value  to  Chicago,  and  profit  to 
the  city  treasury  plus  a  tremendous  saving 
to  the  consumer: 

First — Take  for  public  use  all  the  prop- 
erty between  the  river  bank  and  South 
Water  and  River  Streets  from  Michigan 
Avenue  to  Market  Street.  Tear  down  all 
the  buildings  and  convert  their  sites  into 
street  space. 

Second — Double-deck  South  Water  and 
River  Streets  from  Michigan  Avenue  to 


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OF  DEVELOPMENT 


Market  Street,  having  the  upper  level  con- 
form about  to  the  present  elevation  of  the 
decks  of  the  bridges.  Keep  the  upper  level 
of  the  new  street  for  light  traffic,  excavate 
and  construct  a  heavy  traffic  way  on  the 
lower  level  to  connect  the  lake  front  ware- 
house, railway  and  manufacturing  district 
with  the  West  Side  railway  and  industrial 
zone. 

Third — Create  on  the  surplus  area  of  the 
lower  level  a  rail-and-water  freight  transfer 
and  team  track  facility  open  to  all  roads  for 
the  downtown  district,  leasing  platform  and 
traffic  rights  to  a  terminal  company ;  freight 
cars  to  be  conveyed  to  and  from  the  termi- 
nal by  car  floats  and  lighterage  on  the  river. 
Sub-surface  area,  if  not  used  for  freight 
station  purposes  and  through  traffic  road- 
way, to  be  used  as  a  public  garage  and  park- 


ing space  for  automobiles.  The  sub-surface 
space  under  the  lower  level  will  afford  a 
storage  space  for  the  storage  of  300  sub- 
way trailer  cars,  besides  a  double  track  for 
through  service.  These  uses  will  produce 
public  revenues  sufficient  to  pay,  in  a  few 
years,  the  entire  cost  of  remodeling  the 
street,  so  far  as  it  would  be  borne  by  the 
city,  and  annually  will  save  the  citizens  an 
amount  equal  to  the  total  cost. 

The  engineers,  architects  and  technical 
staff  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission,  aided 
by  traffic,  transportation  and  realty  experts, 
have  made  a  thorough  study  of  the  plan 
here  outlined.  It  has  been  adjudged  feas- 
ible, economical  and  in  every  way  desirable. 

South  Water  Street  is  potentially  one  of 
Chicago's  most  valuable  street  assets.  Na- 
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of  the  Loop  district,  a  little  area  compris- 
ing one-quarter  of  a  square  mile  of  high 
development  in  the  heart  of  the  world's 
fourth  city.  Consider  how  the  improve- 
ment proposed  will  bring  South  Water 
Street  into  its  destiny,  not  as  a  fruit  market, 
but  as  a  modern,  high-class  business 
thoroughfare. 

On  the  upper  level  the  new  street  will 
terminate  upon  the  fine,  broad  plaza  at  the 
south  end  of  the  new  Michigan  Avenue 
bridge.  This  light  traffic  driveway,  skirt- 
ing the  river's  edge  for  half  a  mile,  will  be 
mostly  of  a  width  of  no  feet.  It  will  slope 
inappreciably  to  normal  street  level  at  Mar- 
ket and  Lake  Streets.  There  can  be  broad 
sidewalks  and  such  decorative  treatment  of 
the  river  embankment  as  is  desirable.  On 
the  lower  lovel,  which  will  be  135  feet  wide, 
will  be  provided  a  commodious  and  finely 
paved  traffic  road.  This  will  connect  at 
River  Street  and  Michigan  Avenue  with 
the  lower  level  of  the  double-decked  new 
Michigan  Avenue  bascule  bridge.  South 
Water  Street  east  of  Wabash  Avenue  will 
go  underneath  Michigan  Avenue  on  the 
lower  level  and  on  into  the  freight  yards. 
Its  western  exit  will  be  into  Market  Street, 
which  is  very  wide,  at  the  Lake  Street 
bridge.  The  lower  level  of  this  new  traffic- 
way  will  have  no  cross  traffic.  Teams  and 
trucks  will  have  no  delays,  and  so  a  tre- 
mendous volume  of  business  can  flow 
through  it  at  huge  saving  in  time  and  money 
to  the  industrial  and  commercial  interests 
of  Chicago.  An  important  advantage  of  the 
lower  level  is  that  it  will  uninterruptedly 
connect  the  Illinois  Central  freight  terminal 
area  with  the  West  Side  warehouse  and  ter- 
minal districts. 

The  lower  level  area,  to  be  used  for 
freight  service  and  transfer,  will  be  approx- 
imately one-third  of  the  entire  ground  area. 
A  roadway  of  80  feet  along  the  north  or 
river  line  of  the  street  will  leave  55  feet 
for  railway  trackage  and  loading  platforms. 

The  cost  of  remodeling  South  Water 
Street  and  River  Street  on  this  plan  is  es- 


timated at  $5,931,250.  Of  this  sum  $3,700,- 
ooo  will  be  for  lands  and  buildings  (an 
average  value  of  $31.22  per  square  foot), 
and  $2,231,250  for  double-deck  structure, 
dock  walls,  excavating,  grading,  approaches, 
and  realty  damages.  The  land  values  given 
are  the  full,  fair  cash  value  as  fixed  by  the 
Board  of  Review,  and  are  accurate.  The 
bulk  of  the  South  Water  Street  property 
to  be  taken  is  55  feet  deep,  and  the  street 
is  80  feet  wide. 

Property  immediately  to  the  south,  north 
and  west  of  South  Water  Street  will  ex- 
perience a  decided  increase  in  value  as  a 
result  of  this  project.  This  improvement, 
in  connection  with  the  opening  of  the 
Franklin-Orleans  Street  bridge,  the  new 
double-deck  Kinzie  Street  bridge  and  the 
improvement  of  Canal  Street,  will  mate- 
rially raise  surrounding  property  values  in 
all  directions.  Whatever  part  of  the  cost 
the  city  would  bear  will  be  speedily  returned 
to  it  in  rentals  of  the  sub-surface  area,  and 
the  increase  in  tax  assessments. 

South  Water  Street  will  be  capable  of  the 
best  and  highest  development  when  the  pr ) 
posed  plan  is  carried  out.  Its  buildings 
will  enjoy  light  and  air  superior  to  any 
business  way  in  Chicago,  except  Michigan 
Avenue,  with  no  east  and  west  street  cars 
on  its  broad  upper  level,  but  crossed  at 
State,  Dearborn,  Clark  and  Wells  Streets 
by  important  car  lines.  High  buildings  will 
succeed  the  low  and  old  fire  traps  now 
there.  The  street  will  have  all  the  advan- 
tages of  a  boulevard  on  its  upper  level,  and 
all  those  of  a  heavy  trafficway  below. 

As  a  produce  market,  South  Water  Street 
is  doomed.  New  locations,  with  improved 
sanitary  and  scientific  handling  and  inter- 
change facilities,  must  be  found.  Handling 
produce  on  South  Water  Street  has  been 
proved  most  expensive,  costing  $1,624,800 
each  year  more  than  it  should  cost.  All 
products  are  carted  to  it  under  costly  and 
wasteful  conditions.  Food  is  frost-bitten  in 
winter,  wilted  in  summer,  and  started 
toward  decay  by  being  hauled  over  rough 


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MICHIGAN  AVENUE,  LOOKING   NORTH. 
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streets.  This  wastage  amounts  to  the  huge 
sum  of  $2,520,000  annually.  This  loss  is  all 
borne  by  the  consumer,  which  is  one  reason 
for  the  high  cost  of  living  in  Chicago. 

The  advantages  of  the  proposed  two-level 
improvement  of  South  Water  Street  are : 

1.  It  will  reduce  the  "high  cost  of  living"  by 
saving  the  people  of  Chicago  $6,540,000  annually 
—$2,520,000   on   waste   of    foodstuffs;   $1,624,800 
on  cost  of  handling  foodstuffs ;  $563,000  haulage 
saving  to  commercial  interests;  $1,600,000  saving 
in  time  by  reduced  street  traffic  delays ;  and  $232,- 
200  annual  rental  revenue  produced  for  the  city. 

2.  It  will  be  an  effective  distributor  of  traffic 
in  the  city's  heart,  and  will  reduce  loop  conges- 
tion 16  per  cent,  by  removing  15,714  vehicle  trips 
per  day. 

3.  It  will  be  a  great  distributor  of  traffic  to 
all  sections,  operating  with  Michigan  avenue  and 
the  great  plazas  there,  the  Franklin-Orleans  and 
double-deck   Kinzie   street  bridges,  the  widened, 
two-level  Canal  street,  and  the  Improved  Roose- 
velt Road. 

4.  It  will  enable  vehicles  between  the  North 
and  West  and  Southwest  sides  to  avoid  loop  con- 
gestion. 

5.  It  will  greatly  facilitate  commercial  traffic 
on  the   important   east  and   west  streets  imme- 
diately  north   of   the    river   by   lessening   cross- 
traffic  congestion. 

6.  It  will  add  two  new  through  east  and  west 
traffic   arteries,   the    lower   one   unobstructed    by 
cross  traffic. 

7.  It  will   bring   State,   Dearborn,   Clark   and 
Wells   streets   into   their   full  usefulness   by  re- 
moving  the   present   clogging  by   peddlers'   and 
grocers'  wagons  between  Lake  and  South  Water 
streets. 

8.  It   will   provide   an   uninterrupted   connec- 
tion between   the   Illinois    Central    freight   yards 


and  the  West  Side  warehouse  and  terminal  dis- 
tricts. 

9.  It  will  tremendously  ease  the  hardship  on 
teaming,    and    increase    loading    capacity   25    per 
cent,  by  reducing  the  present  grade  between  Mich- 
igan avenue  and  the  Illinois  Central  yards  from 
5  per  cent  to  1  per  cent. 

10.  It  will  connect  on  the  east  with  the  upper 
and  lower  levels  of  Michigan  avenue,  and  on  the 
west  with  the  present  grade  at  Market  and  Lake 
streets. 

11.  It  will  be  a  fine  thoroughfare — 110   feet 
wide  on  the  upper  level — for  high  class  commer- 
cial  development,  enjoying  unexcelled  light,  air 
and  transportation. 

12.  It  will  conform  on  the  upper  level  with  the 
new  grade  level  of  the  bridges  now  being  built, 
and  will  fit  in  with  the  proposed  La  Salle  and 
Franklin-Orleans   street  bridges. 

13.  It  will  immediately  provide  abutting  prop- 
erty  with    direct   contact   with    rail    and     water 
transportation;  and  with  merchandising  facilities 
above  and  freight  facilities  below.     Its  two-level 
street  advantages  will  greatly  increase  property 
values  on  South  Water  street.    Every  element  of 
the  improvement  is  ideal  for  the  most  profitable 
use  of  the  abutting  property. 

14.  It  will  be  of  incalculable  value  when  the 
Lakes-to-the-Gulf   waterway   is    completed ;     and 
will   also   fit   in   with   any    future   union    freight 
clearing  methods  that  may  be  adopted. 

15.  It  is  a  simple  plan,  involves  no  legal  diffi- 
culties, is  not  prohibitive  in  cost  of  construction, 
and  will  save  in  a  single  year  an  amount  equal 
to  the  total  cost. 

16.  It  will  be  the  first  step  in  the  Plan  of 
Chicago  to  make  the  banks  of  the  Chicago  River 
profitable,  useful  and  attractive. 

17.  It  will   greatly  increase   property   values, 
thereby  adding  to  the  taxable  property  of  Chi- 
cago, and  increasing  the  city's  revenue. 

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(PUBLISHER'S  NOTE:  The  Chicago  Plan  Commission  is  the  most 
useful  quasi-public  body  in  Chicago.  Its  value  to  the  city  lies  not  only 
in  what  it  create*  and  recommends  in  the  way  of  public  improvement* 
for  the  economic  benefit  of  the  whole  people,  but  also  in  what  it  pre- 
vents in  the  way  of  menacing  and  uneconomic  development.  No  better 
illustration  of  the  usefulness  of  this  commission  is  afforded  than  in  its 
recent  strenuous  and  successful  fight  for  increased  bonding  power  for 


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Chicago  and  other  Illinois  cities,  so  that  the  public  improvements  it 

has  recommended    can   be   made   during  the  fi 

period.     It  demonstrated  that  the  annual  saving  in  the  South  Water 


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CHICAGO  has  operated  under  ex- 
tremely adverse  financial  limitations 
for  a  great  many  years.  For  thirty- 
two  years,  from  1871  to  1903,  Chicago 
made  practically  no  increase  in  its  bonded 
debt,  although  the  population  increased 
from  306,000  in  1871  to  more  than  2,000,- 
ooo  in  1903.  A  small  measure  of  relief  was 
had  in  1909  when  the  assessed  valuation 
was  changed  from  one-fifth  to  one-third  of 
the  full  value. 

Since  that  time  411,398  people  have  been 
added  to  the  city's  population — an  increase 
of  18.82  per  cent — or  equal  to  a  city  the 
size  of  Cincinnati,  O.,  or  Newark,  N.  J., 
and  only  about  25,000  less  than  the  popula- 
tion of  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  according  to  the 
last  census.  These  cities — only  the  size  of 
the  increase  in  Chicago's  population  in  ten 
years — have  an  indebtedness  per  capita  av- 
eraging $126.38,  or  approximately  4^2  times 
that  of  Chicago  today. 

During  the  next  ten  years  Chicago  will 
have  an  even  greater  increase  in  population, 
but  on  the  same  ratio  as  the  increase  for 
the  past  ten  years — 18.82  per  cent — it  will 
have  added  488,695  people  to  its  population, 
or  more  than  the  1917  population  of  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  or  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Chicago — the  fourth  city  in  the  world — 
is  in  a  class  with  country  towns,  so  far  as 
indebtedness  is  concerned.  With  nearly 


3,000,000  inhabitants,  Chicago  in  indebted- 
ness per  capita  is  in  a  class  with  cities  of 
30,000  to  150,000  population,  like  Kenosha, 
Cedar  Rapids,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  New  Haven, 
Grand  Rapids,  Sioux  City,  Davenport,  Lin- 
coln, Neb.,  and  Lexington,  Ky.  New  York's 
annual  interest  alone  on  its  bonded  debt  is 
greater  than  Chicago's  entire  bonded  debt. 

Chicago  foots  a  list  of  163  American 
cities  in  indebtedness  per  capita.  Of  the 
219  cities  of  over  30,000  population,  only 
56  have  a  lower  indebtedness  than  Chicago 
Seventy  cities  in  the  United  States  owe 
from  two  to  six  times  as  much  money  as 
Chicago. 

It  was  this  condition  which  caused  the 
Chicago  Plan  Commission  to  make  its  long, 
strenuous  and  successful  fight  to  have  the 
State  Legislature  grant  Chicago  and  the 
other  cities  of  Illinois  financial  relief  inso- 
far as  the  issuance  of  bonds  is  concerned 
The  law  limits  the  indebtedness  of  munici- 
palities to  five  per  cent  of  the  assessed  valu- 
ation. In  1909  the  assessed  valuation  was 
fixed  at  one-third  of  the  full  value  of  prop- 
erty. As  a  result  of  the  efforts  of  the  Chi- 
cago Plan  Commission,  the  State  Legisla- 
ture at  the  session  ending  June  18,  1919, 
changed  the  assessed  valuation  from  one- 
third  to  one-half  of  the  full  value,  thus 
allowing  Chicago  to  issue  $27,500,000 
additional  bonds  above  the  present  limit. 


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The  Plan  Commission  pointed  out 
that  this  would  not  increase  the  taxes 
beyond  a  few  cents  per  hundred  of  assessed 
value,  necessary  to  provide  for  the  annual 
interest  and  sinking  funds.  The  bonds  are 
to  be  issued  over  a  number  of  years,  but 
even  if  they  were  all  issued  at  once  and 
right  away,  the  maximum  amount  of  the 
special  tax  therefor  would  amount  only  to 
twelve  cents  per  hundred  dollars  of  as- 
sessed valuation.  Spreading  the  bonds  over 
a  number  of  years,  naturally,  will  materially 
reduce  this  amount,  and  it  should  be  borne 
in  mind  that  no  tax  is  levied  until  bonds 
have  been  issued,  and  that  no  bonds  can 
be  issued  for  any  purpose  until  they  have 
been  approved  by  the  people  in  referendum. 


Changing  the  assessed  valuation  required 
the  passage  by  the  Legislature  of  some 
sixty-nine  other  bills  proportionately  reduc- 
ing the  different  tax  rates  of  all  taxing 
bodies  in  the  state. 

The  passage  of  this  legislation  by  the 
General  Assembly  opens  the  way  for  a  vote 
by  the  people  on  the  issuance  of  bonds  to 
cover  the  latest  recommendations  of  the 
Chicago  Plan  Commission  for  the  widening, 
opening  and  extension  of  Ogden,  Western 
and  Ashland  Avenues  and  Robey  and 
South  Water  Streets,  and  the  completion 
of  Michigan  Avenue  improvement  now  un- 
der way,  the  city's  share  of  the  cost  of 
which  has  been  estimated  at  $28,600,000. 


Copyright,  The  Commercial  Club  of  Chicago. 
VIEW    LOOKING    SOUTH    OVER    THE    LAGOON    OF    THE 
PROPOSED    LAKE    FRONT    PARK    EXTENDING    FOR 
FIVE  MILES  ALONG  THE  SOUTH  SHORE. 


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PUBLISHER'S  NOTE.— We  give  credit  to  the  Board  of  Forest 
Preserve  Commissioners  for  the  fact?  and  text  contained  in  this  article. 
The  citizens  of  Cook  County  owe  much  to  this  Board  and  to  its  Presi- 
dent, the  Hon.  Peter  Reinberg,  for  the  work  that  is  being  done  to 
preserve  a  vast  tract  of  forest  land,  which  is  now  owned  by  the  Forest 
Preserve  District  of  Cook  County.  We  are  thus  staying  the  hand  of 
destruction  lor  all  time  in  the  realm  of  virgin  forests,  the  refuge  for 
wild  game  and  birds. 


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THERE  are  few  people  in  this  State 
acquainted  with  the  effort  that  is 
being  made  in  Cook  County  to  pre- 
serve the  chain  of 
forests  destined  to 
become  the  great 
playground  for  fu- 
t  u  r  e  generations. 
Where  mankind 
with  its  frailties  has 
failed  in  the  preser- 
vation of  facts  bear- 
ing on  the  earliest 
life  in  this  region, 
sturdy  nature  has 
not  failed.  The 
story  which  these 
Forest  Preserves 
unfold  is  truer  and 
more  beautiful  than 
can  ever  be  put  up- 
on paper.  To  that 
end  we  have  at- 
tempted in  this  arti- 
cle to  produce  some 
illustrations  which 
will  give  a  faint  idea 
of  the  character  of 
the  Forest  Preserves 
and  their  unusual  and  unexampled  beauty. 
Each  piece  of  rugged  forest  with  its 
never-to  be  erased  trails  winding  through 


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By   L.   A.    Wolterding 


valleys  and  over  hills  is  a  chapter  in  this 
story.  Each  stream  with  its  fords  marked! 
by  mighty  rocks  that  will  be  waiting  for 
many  generations  to- 
come  is  an  impres- 
sionable illustration 
of  the  narrative. 
These  great  prime- 
val forests  were  the 
battle  grounds  and 
the  hunting  grounds 
of  prehistoric  Cook 
County,  and  are 
now  the  recreation 
grounds  for  the 
twentieth  cen  t  u  r  y 
citizenship. 

In  pre  serving 
them  for  the  future, 
we  have  accom- 
plished the  end 
sought  by  the  law- 
makers of  Illinois, 
who  conceived  the 
idea  of  the  Forest 
Preserve  District — 
preservation  of  the 
forest  land  for  the 
people,  protection  of 
the  last  fragments  of  Nature's  most  won- 
derful handiwork  so  fast  giving  away  be- 
fore the  crushing  heel  of  Industry  and 


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the  ever  onward  march  of  Commerce. 
At  this  point  it  is  interesting  to  note 
some  of  the  history  connected  with  our 
vast  forests,  to  the  point  where  civilization 
first  showed  its  hand.  This  history  states 
how  Joliet  and  Marquette,  those  French 
explorers  never  to  be  forgotten,  braved  all 
the  dangers  of  the  Illinois  River,  banked 
with  savage  redskins,  to  visit  the  "Checau- 
gau  Portage"  in  1673.  They  tell  us  that 
Indians  only  did  live  here  previous  to  that 
time.  That  is  the  beginning  of  the  most 
wonderful  story  open  to  all  in  Cook  County 


willing  to  have  a  rendezvous 
with  Nature  in  these  tracts  of 
forest  land  skirting  the  city 
of  Chicago. 

In  the  Palos  Hill  tract— 
2,370  acres  of  virgin  forest 
bordering  the  Drainage  Canal 
t  h  at  was  the  Checaugau 
(Wild  Onion)  River  in  In- 
dian days — there  is  the  only 
evidence  we  have  as  to  what 
were  perhaps  the  original  in- 
habitants of  our  countryside. 
They  were  mound  Indians. 
Mounds  stand  there  today, 
our  only  link  to  the  life  that 
existed  on  the  ground  we  oc- 
cupy, back  in  the  days  when 
men  seeking  to  establish  the 
globular  formation  of  the 
earth  stumbled  onto  America. 
They  tell  at  least  how  and 
where  the  aborigines  lived. 

Trails  easily  definable  for 
amateurs  and  unmistakable 
remnants  of  village  habita- 
tion bear  evidence  to  the  ac- 
tivities of  the  Pottowatomies, 
Ottawas,  Chippewas,  Winne- 
bagoes  and  Iroquois,  chiefly 
the  first  named — Indians  who 
might  be  styled  the  natives  of 
Cook  County. 

There  also  are  found  the 
marks  that  tell  of  white  man's  first  venture 
into  our  domain — the  explorations  of  the 
Frenchmen.  Ruins  of  French  forts  fur- 
nish the  story  of  their  struggles  to  hold  the 
territory  against  the  Indians  who  were 
making  a  fight  for  their  native  land. 

Then  in  the  northern  end  of  the  county 
we  likewise  find  trace  of  the  French  effort 
in  the  short-lived  development  of  the  terri- 
tory which  was  theirs  by  virtue  of  their 
exploring  tendency.  It  is  the  site  of  Father 
Francois  Pinet's  Jesuite  Mission  founded  in 
1696 — Cook  County's  first  religious  institu- 


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tion — a  milestone  in  history. 
That  was  located  near  the 
present  Gross  Point,  west  of 
Wilmette,  at  what  were  then 
the  headwaters  of  the  North 
Branch  of  the  Chicago  River. 
The  site  overflowed  what  the 
Indians  styled  "Quiet  Lake," 
from  which  we  have  today 
the  picturesque  Skokie 
Marsh. 

This  "Mission  of  Guardian 
Angel,"  founded  there  be- 
cause of  the  popularity  of  a 
portage  between  that  point  on 
the  North  Branch  and  the 
southward  flowing  waters  of 
the  Desplaines,  and  the  Dur- 
antye  for,  1686,  near  the 
river  mouth,  constituted  the 
French  effort  toward  settle- 
ment of  Cook  County. 

In  1699  opposition  to  the 
Jesuits  resulted  in  abandon- 
ment of  Father  Pinet's  mis- 
sions and  for  almost  a  cen- 
tury the  tribes  of  redmen  held 
full  sway  throughout  the 
country,  and,  in  fact,  through- 
out the  entire  Northwest. 
Indian  hostility  forced  prac- 
tical abandonment  of  the 
"Checaugau  portages"  by 
white  men. 

It  was  during  that  period  that  the  Pot- 
towatomies,  having  demonstrated  their 
right  to  the  territory  by  many  bloody  wars 
fought  on  the  shores  of  the  Desplaines, 
Chicago  and  Calumet  rivers,  developed  the 
"Indian  Cook  County"  evidenced  in  the 
chain  of  villages  and  forts  connecting  trails. 

It  was  of  these  Indians — our  county's 
first  inhabitants — that  Judge  Caton,  close 
student  of  redman  traits,  wrote,  "They 
despised  the  cultivation  of  the  soil  as  too 
mean  even  for  their  women  and  children, 


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especially  for  this   book 


and  deemed  the  captures  of  the  chase  the 
only  fit  food  for  a  valorous  people." 

Yet  it  was  the  Pottowatomies  that  gave 
us  those  "good  Indians,"  Alexander  Rob- 
inson and  Billy  Caldwell  (Sauganash), 
whose  names  have  been  written  indelibly 
into  Cook  County's  history.  And  Grover, 
writing  of  the  Pottowatomies  of  the  Woods, 
credited  them  with  "becoming  in  time  a 
different  people;  they  were  susceptible  to 
the  influence  of  civilization  and  religion; 
and  took  kindly  to  agriculture  to  supplement 


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By  L.  A.    Wolterding 


and  to  augment  the  fruits  of  the  chase." 
The  old  Indian  trails — many  of  which 
have  developed  into  highways  for  modern 
traffic  and  under  the  "good  roads"  cam- 
paign instituted  by  the  county  commission- 
ers, have  blossomed  forth  as  splendid 
boulevards — furnish  a  perfect  network  of 
communications  between  the  different  for- 
est preserves. 

No  surveyor  or  engineer  of  today  could 
anticipate  the  needs  of  two  generations  to 
come  as  did  those  uncivilized  Indians  more 
than  a  century  ago  when  they  "beat  the 
path"  for  the  modern  highways  of  today. 
For  instance,  there  is  the  heavily  traveled 
Green  Bay  Road  which  has  sprung  from 
the  red  men's  Green  Bay  trail. 

Happily  the  close-to-fifteen  thousand 
acres  of  forest  land  now  constituting  the 
preserve  district  represent  all  that  is  choice 


in  the  Cook  County  ground  so  dear  to  the 
modern  citizenship  for  its  Indian  associa- 
tions. 

By  some  good  turn  of  fate  it  is  the  his- 
torically famous  tract  in  almost  every  local- 
ity that  was  preserved  all  these  year  await- 
ing the  inevitable  government  action  that 
has  taken  form  in  the  creation  of  the  dis- 
trict. Landscape  value  has  probably  been 
the  secret  of  our  good  fortune.  Strange  as 
it  may  seem  to  the  citizens  of  Cook  County 
wont  to  read  of  natural  splendors  from  afar 
and  so  admire  them,  nowhere  in  the  world 
can  be  found  scenery  that  can  be  compared, 
in  many  respects,  to  landscapes  right  here 
at  your  doorstep. 

And  peculiar  as  it  may  seem  to  us  with 
whom  thoughts  of  explorations  carry  us 
back  centuries,  there  are  acres  upon  acres 
of  the  wildest  sort  of  territory  within  the 


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•county's  preserves  that  have  probably  never 
been  explored — a  veritable  adventurer's 
paradise. 

For  the  admirer  of  natural  scenic  effects 
there  are  weeks  and  weeks  of  thrills  ahead 
just  in  visits  to  territory  within  their  own 
county.  Both  historically  and  geologically, 
the  Cook  County  Forest  Preserve  Districts 
constitute  a  national  attraction  yet  to  be 
recognized  locally. 

One  might  well  spend  weeks  along  the 
Desplaines  River  in  that  stretch  of  2,500 
acres  extending  twenty  miles  from  Madison 
street  north  to  the  county  line — a  valley  so 
loved  by  the  Indians  that  many  preferred 
to  die  there  rather  than  yield  to  the  pale- 
faces. 

That  is  the  same  river  valley  which  Joliet 
and  Marquette  styled  the  "realm  of  beau- 
tiful country"  back  in  1673.  It  was  always 
the  favorite  abode  of  the  redmen.  Every 


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By   L.   A.    Wolterding 


turn  in  the  beloved  stream  had  its  village; 
every  promontory  its  fort  for  the  purpose 
of  defending  the  home  against  invaders. 

And  the  same  is  true  of  the  Salt  Creek 
Valley,  extending  west  of  Riverside  to  the 
county  line,  another  Indian  paradise — 684 
acres  which  men  competent  to  judge  on 
rugged  natural  forestry  admit  have  no  su- 
perior anywhere  in  the  country. 

Great  forests  of  oaks  and  maples  and 
hickory  and  elm,  inhabited  by  every  known 
species  of  animal  and  bird  life — those  ex- 
tinct are  being  revived — and  carpeted  with 
a  variety  of  flowers  and  fauna  worthy  of  a 
horticulturist's  dream,  are  found  here. 

Northernly — all  Preserves  are  connected 
with  the  splendid  concrete  roads  and  easily 
accessible  by  the  maze  of  railway  lines  as 
shown  in  the  complete  guide  and  route  map 
appearing  in  this  book — there  are  the  two 


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By   L.   A.    Wolterding 


famous  groves  for  which  townships  are 
named — Elk  Grove  and  Palatine  Deer 
Grove. 

These  with  the  Desplaines  and  Chicago 
rivers  tracts,  the  old  Turnbull  Woods  and 
Big  Woods  or  Evanston  Woods  on  the 
Green  Bay  Trail  and  the  Schaumburg 
reservation,  constitute  the  system  for  the 
north  of  the  county,  all  of  which  will  be  de- 
scribed in  detail  later. 

In  the  south  a  system  just  as  attractive 
has  been  established  with  the  acqusition  of 
Palos  Hills,  the  Willow  Springs  woodland 
where  canal  boat  drivers  on  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  canal  stopped  to  fill  their  water 
barrels,  the  Chicago  Heights  tract,  a  thou- 
sand acres  of  incomparable  scenery,  the 


Homewood,  Little  Calumet  and  Beverly 
Hills. 

Beverly  Hills  alone,  at  8/th  street  and 
Western  avenue,  with  that  massive  rock 
formation  standing  close  to  100  feet  high,, 
rivaling  the  far-famed  Starved  Rock  on, 
which  Indians  died  by  the  hundreds,  con- 
stitutes an  attraction  worth  traveling  miles, 
to  see. 

This  Beverly  Hills  peak  was  an  impor- 
tant point  in  the  days  of  Indian  wars.  It 
was  the  chief  signal  tower  from  which  the 
orders  went  out  mobilizing  the  redskinned 
warriors  from  villages  for  miles  around  in 
case  of  emergency. 

Then  directly  west  of  the  city  of  Chicago' 
there  is  the  beautiful  Thatcher's  woods, 
which,  including  the  Steele  tract,  has  long, 
been  known  to  the  city's  and  county's 
recreation  seekers  as  we  hope  will  soon  be 
the  case  with  every  inch  of  the  woodland  in 
the  district's  13,000  and  more  acres  of  to- 
day. 

Wherever  possible  the  preserve  commis- 
sioners have  striven  to  develop  this  great 
natural  park  system  for  the  convenience 
of  the  public.  Artificial  improvements,  such 
as  the  construction  of  the  "wonder  lake" 
in  the  Palatine  tract,  have  been  made  and 
will  be  made  wherever  possible. 

In  the  development  of  the  Forest  Pre- 
serve District  the  president  and  members 
of  the  board  of  commissioners  are  actuated 
only  by  the  desire  to  carry  out  the  law  cre- 
ating the  district  in  such  a  way  as  to  operate 
to  the  best  interests  of  the  public. 

Each  and  every  citizen  of  Cook  County 
is  a  partner  in  this  project — the  greatest 
thing  of  its  kind  as  may  be  seen  if  time  is 
taken  to  read  through  this  article.  And  the 
one  thing  that  is  going  to  make  it  still 
greater  is  widespread  public  interest  which 
we  feel  is  coming  once  the  public  is  ad- 
vised. 


<1)    Lincoln  Monument,  Lincoln  Park;   (2)    Statues,    Gar  field  Park;    (3)    De  La  Salle  Monument,  Lincoln 
Park;    (4)    Logan  Monument,  Grant  Park;    (5)    Statues,  Garfleld  Park;   (6)   "The  Alarm,"  Lincoln  Park. 


(1)   Garfleld  Park  Pavilion:   (2)   Lincoln  Park  Refectory;    (3)    Entrance  to   Garfield  Park  Refectory  and 
Rest  Rooms.  — Henry  Fuermann  6  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


Chicago's    Parks    and    Driveways 


By    FRANK    J.    CAMPBELL 


PUBLISHER'S  NOTE— These  views  of  the  Chicago  Parks  are  fur- 
nished  by  the  courtesy  of  Henry  Fuermann  &  Sons,  Architectural 
Photographers,  Chicago — Official  Photographers  for  this  book. 


THE  wealth  of  interesting  attractions 
presented  to  visitors  who  come  by 
the  thousands  every  year  to  Chicago 
include  not  only  the  many  art  studios, 
galleries,  lectures  and  numerous  displays 
in  private  and  public  collections  but  sev- 
eral tours  over  the  miles  of  boulevards  and 
through  the  parks.  These  tours  can  be 
so  planned  and  arranged  that  visits  can  be 
made  to  many  social  centers,  the  public 
playgrounds,  the  field  houses,  the  conserva- 
tories, country  clubs  adjacent,  art  colonies 
and  hosts  of  other  pertinent  and  pleasant 
attractions  incidental  to  the  aims  and 
work  of  club  women.  The  University  of 
Chicago  and  the  Northwestern  can  be  in- 
cluded also,  and  the  excursions  demon- 
strate that  Chicago  has  a  most  fascinating 
environment  in  which  Nature  has  been 
developed  through  the  aid  of  competent 
directors  of  the  various  Park  Commissions. 
Justly  proud  of  her  parks  and  driveways, 
Chicago  arranges  excursions,  which  are 
conducted  by  representative  men  and  wo- 
men to  show  the  development  and  beauty 
of  the  park  system.  In  no  country  are 
there  longer  continuous  driveways  than  in 
'Chicago  and  along  these  driveways  may  be 
seen  splendid  types  of  architecture,  beauti- 
ful landscape  gardening,  monuments,  views 
of  the  lake,  the  artistic  field  houses  and 
playgrounds  designed  for  the  use  of  the 
people  in  their  leisure  moments.  Both  men 
and  women  of  this  country  and  abroad  re- 
mark upon  the  extremely  beautiful  series 
of  parks  and  their  connecting  links.  Chi- 


cago is  unique  in  drawing  to  it  as  perma- 
nent residents  an  art-loving  community 
which  assists  in  the  propagation  of  munici- 
pal art,  notably  those  from  other  countries. 
One  never  forgets  the  Dream  City  of  1893 
whose  lingering  remnant,  typified  in  the 
Field  Columbian  Museum,  is  still  standing, 
a  melancholy  spectacle,  but  visited  for  its 
hallowed  associations  and  its  superb  archi- 
tecture, wreck  as  it  apparently  appears  to 
be.  Some  of  the  Ferguson  Fund  would 
preserve  this  one  example,  purely  classic 
and  sublime,  for  future  generations  if  im- 
mediate steps  were  to  be  taken  to  check 
further  decay. 

The  pioneers  of  Chicago  foresaw  the 
possibilities  of  the  Garden  City,  and  al- 
though the  progress  was  slow,  still  it  was 
permanent  and  well  planned.  Chicago  has 
more  artistic  beauty  than  is  generally  con- 
ceded, and  the  excursions  with  well  in- 
formed persons  are  full  of  beauty  and  his- 
toric interest.  There  are  fifty-three  cem- 
eteries in  which  are  monuments  to  distin- 
guished people,  handsome  mausoleums  and 
good  statuary.  The  landscape  art  is  excel- 
lent and  on  Decoration  Day  thousands  visit 
these  Cities  of  Silence,  Rosehill,  Graceland, 
Calvary,  Oakwoods,  and  are  amazed  to  find 
shafts  to  the  Blue  and  the  Gray,  to  Bohem- 
ian soldiers  and  sailors,  to  the  Press  and  in- 
dividual soldiers  and  citizens  of  rank.  The 
drives  to  and  through  these  quiet  places  are 
well  worth  while. 

The  Lake  Shore  Drive  is  a  popular  drive 
starting  from  the  Art  Institute  speeding 


(1)  Scene,  Gar  field  Park;   (2)   Scene,  McKinley  Park;    (3)    Fountain    House,    Gar  field    Park;      (4)     Scene, 
Sherman  Park;  (5)  Fountain  Pool,  Humbold  Park.    —Henry  Fuermann  &  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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•north  on  Michigan  avenue,  crossing  the 
.space  some  day  to  be  metamorphosed  into 
•beauty,  over  the  narrow  stream,  Chicago 
.River,  a  little  east  and  then  to  the  esplanade 
with  the  broad  expanse  of  Lake  Michigan 
sparkling  in  the  sunshine.  On  the  west, 
handsome  types  of  architecture  line  the 
way  and  here  Chicago's  wealth  is  represent- 
ative with  private  galleries,  rare  curios  and 
tapestries.  Reaching  Lincoln  Park,  the 
tourist  enters  an  inclosure  which  formerly 
was  a  cemetery,  and  which  still  contains  the 
•dust  of  an  old  Revolutionary  hero,  the  spot 
being  marked  by  a  boulder  with  the  inscrip- 
tion "David  Kennison,  age — over  one  hun- 
dred years — by  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution." 

Saint-Gaudens  statue  of  Lincoln  is  the 
most  admired  of  all  the  many  statues  in 
Lincoln  Park  and  most  reverently  and  the 
great  inspiration  for  all.  It  is  a  noble  work 
and  Chicago  is  proud  to  show  it  as  an  ex- 
ample of  patriotism,  martyrdom  and  artis- 
tic excellence.  It  was  in  1828  that  Illinois 
was  given  the  tract  of  land  which  is  known 
as  Lincoln  Park,  but  it  was  not  until  June, 
1865,  that  it  was  so-called,  receiving  its 
first  appropriation  of  $10,000  when  it  start- 
•ed  on  its  career  of  expansion  which  regis- 
ters 12.64  square  miles,  but  the  district  con- 
trolled by  the  Lincoln  Park  Commissioners 
covers  699.94  acres,  which  includes  9.33 
miles  of  boulevards,  thirteen  in  number. 
The  seven  Commissioners  are  appointed  by 
the  Governor  with  consent  of  the  Senate. 
There  are  a  president,  vice-president,  treas- 
urer, secretary,  superintendent,  attorney, 
and  auditor  to  direct  the  system.  Small 
parks  and  fieldhouses  associated  under  the 
management  are  Stanton  Park,  Hamlin 
Park,  Seward  Park,  Wells  Park,  the  Lake 
Shore  Playground  and  others  which  are  in- 
tended for  the  use  of  the  public,  and  all 
well  equipped  with  all  facilities  of  shelter, 
gymnasiums,  outdoor  and  indoor,  restau- 
rants, assembly  halls,  adapted  to  the  cen- 
tter  wherever  placed. 


Within  the  confines  of  Lincoln  park  is 
the  Luther  Laflin  Memorial,  the  Academy 
of  Sciences  in  which  are  250,000  specimens 
of  mollusks  and  others  of  natural  history 
of  local  interest.  During  the  great  fire  the 
original  building  was  destroyed  but  the 
present  one  is  much  admired,  being  of  Ital- 
ian Renaissance  style  of  architecture, 
132x61  feet,  built  of  Bedford  limestone. 
Conservatories  of  great  size  filled  with  rare 
plants  assist  in  promoting  the  applications 
of  the  laws  of  color  harmony  as  exempli- 
fied in  the  landscape  architecture.  An- 
nouncements of  unusual  floral  displays  in 
the  conservatories  draw  the  public  at  all 
times,  notably  the  night-blooming  cereus, 
the  roses  and  the  chrysanthemums.  Ani- 
mals delight  the  children  and  the  adult,  so 
the  "Zoo"  is  an  ever  present  charm  and 
lure,  as  the  wonders  of  the  animal  kingdom 
are  many.  As  a  collection,  the  "Zoo"  ranks 
with  the  most  renowned,  attracting  scien- 
tists as  well  as  the  average  tourists  to  view 
its  wonders.  The  aviary,  too,  is  a  delight 
and  joy  for  all  with  its  feathered  groups. 
Lagoons  and  bathing  beaches  have  their 
portion  of  humanity  every  day  and  Sunday, 
but  the  pedestrian  loves  to  stroll  through 
the  park  and  study  the  statues  which  in- 
clude the  equestrian  statue  of  Grant  by  Re- 
bisso,  and  erected  by  popular  subscription. 
The  statue  of  Linne,  the  naturalist,  the 
gift  of  the  Swedish  citizens  of  Chicago,  is 
another  of  large  proportions  and  of  com- 
manding interest.  Shakespeare  by  Part- 
ridge runs  a  close  second  to  Saint  Gauden's 
Lincoln  for  merit  as  well  as  popularity. 
Here  is  the  mecca  for  thousands,  especially 
on  the  commendation  of  the  Immortal 
Bard's  birthday  when  pageants  and  devo- 
tional exercises  are  annually  presented  and 
participated  in  by  the  clubs  and  schools. 
The  Alarm  Group  by  John  J.  Boyle  is 
worthy  of  interest,  representing  an  Indian 
group  in  danger.  The  Signal  of  Peace,  or 
an  Indian  messenger  with  the  flag  of  truce, 
is  another  portrayal  of  aboriginal  life  by  C. 
E.  Dallin.  De  La  Salle,  the  work  of  Count 


(I)    Golf   Links,  Jackson  Park;    (2)    Public  Playgrounds,   Palmer  Park;    (3)    Refectory,  Eckhart   Park; 
(4)   Playgrounds,  Cornell  Park.  — Henry  Fuermann  d  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers- 


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Jacques  de  la  Laing,  Benjamin  Franklin  by 
Parks,  Garibaldi  by  Victor  Ghiradi,  Schill- 
er and  the  most  recent  Goethe  by  Herman 
Hahn,  unveiled  June  13,  are  other  notable 
figures;  while  Hans  Christian  Andersen  by 
Gelert  is  a  statue  which  the  children  love. 
Near  the  flower  parterre,  is  the  fountain 
by  Saint  Gaudens,  which  is  composed  of  a 
group  of  frollicking  cherubs  grasping  a 
huge  fish,  slashed  by  sportive  swans.  These 
important  works  are  most  inadequately 
presented  to  the  reader,  but  they  await 
your  inspection.  Lincoln  Park  has  many 
beautiful  spots  in  it  and  it  is  being  enlarged 
to  a  greater  extent.  Chicago's  foreign  pop- 
ulation have  been  more  generous  and  ap- 
preciative of  their  distinguished  men  than 
the  American  apparently,  but  the  future 
holds  excellent  promise  for  other  statuary 
which  all  women  hope,  may  include  some 
of  the  magnificent  women  of  the  world  and 
America  and  signalize  their  achievements. 
Painters  and  sculptors  are  creating  these 
wonderful  works  for  posterity,  but  at  pres- 
ent, woman  is  rarely  presented  to  public 
view  in  our  parks  except  as  representative 
of  the  ideal  of  all  that  is  beautiful  and  in- 
spiring. 

From  Lincoln  Park  to  the  West  Side  is  a 
gradual  transition  along  remarkable  boule- 
vards. Speeding  in  to  the  parks  controlled 
by  the  West  Chicago  Park  Commissioners, 
our  visitors  are  regaled  by  other  scenes  of 
wondrous  landscape  gardening,  other  con- 
servatories and  thousands  of  participants 
in  the  glories  which  tempt  the  humblest  and 
the  most  exalted.  As  for  Lincoln  Park, 
the  Commissioners  of  the  West  Side  parks 
are  also  appointed  by  the  Governor  and 
Senate,  and  are  seven  in  number,  but  a  body 
of  officers  also  assist  in  the  expansion  of 
the  system.  So  well  has  this  been  accom- 
plished that  there  is  a  pleasant  rivalry  in 
attractions.  The  area  of  the  Park  District 
is  thirty-five  square  miles  with  twenty-five 
miles  of  boulevards  and  13  parks.  Of  these 
mention  may  be  made  of  Humboldt,  Gar- 


field,  Douglas,  Jefferson,  Franklin,  Pulaski 
and  Sheridan  as  notable  in  name,  while 
there  are  many  other  small  parks. 

Humboldt  Park  and  Garfield  Park,  in 
which  lagoons,  pools,  drives,  walks,  con- 
servatories, boathouses  and  refectories  are 
abundant  are  most  beautiful  in  landscape 
gardening.  Pergolas,  rose  gardens,  statu- 
ary as  an  aid  to  landscape  effect  contribute 
their  charm  and  many  monuments  add  dis- 
tinction to  these  larger  areas  of  loveliness. 
Here  was  tried  the  experiment  a  few  years 
ago  of  placing  statuary  in  parks,  and  as  a 
result  two  beautiful  groups  in  marble  by 
Lorado  Taft  are  placed  near  the  conserva- 
tory in  Garfield  Park,  amid  the  marvelous 
palm  collection.  The  statue  of  Robert 
Burns'  is  also  in  Garfield  Park,  as  are  Hum- 
boldt and  Leif  Ericson.  Near  this  latter 
statue  an  astonishing  demonstration  was 
held  during  the  summer  of  1917  by  Ameri- 
can Norweigians  in  a  celebration  of  Nor- 
way's independence  of  a  century,  for  Leif 
Ericson,  they  assert,  was  the  discoverer  of 
America.  Here  also  Kosciusko  and  Reuter 
occupy  places  of  honor.  In  Douglas  Park 
is  Havlicek,  while  the  tall  shaft  surmount- 
ed with  a  statue  of  Douglas,  for  whom  this 
west  side  park  is  named,  looks  out  over  the 
lake  on  the  south  side  in  a  small  inclosure 
where  the  remains  of  the  distinguished 
statesman  now  rests.  Union  Park  has  a 
statue  of  Carter  H.  Harrison,  and  the  Hay- 
market  riot  has  been  commemorated  with  a 
statue  of  a  policeman,  many  of  those  brave 
men  having  lost  their  lives  in  this  riot.  The 
anarchists  have  a  monument  in  Waldheim 
Cemetery  as  a  memorial  of  those  who  died 
for  their  convictions. 

Charles  J.  Mulligan  has  The  Miner,  The 
Rail-Splitter  and  a  fountain  in  the  West 
Side  parks,  and  Leonard  Crunelle  has  ex- 
amples in  the  water  gardens.  Boat  houses 
and  refectories  accommodate  the  patrons 
of  these  parks  and  artistic  benches  are 
placed  at  intervals  for  rest.  The  driveways, 
as  in  all  the  parks,  are  vistas  of  extreme 


C\)View  Taken  in  Washington  Park;   (2)   View  Taken  in  Washington  Park;  (3)   View  Taken  in  Jackson 
Park;   (4)   View  Taken  in  Washington  Park.  — Henry  Fuermann  &  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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beauty,  at  all  seasons  of  the  year  and  the 
artistic  lighting  at  twilight  and  evening 
adds  a  fairy-like  atmosphere.  Music  of 
high  merit  is  frequently  a  feature  and  often 
given  in  the  marble  music  pavilion  in  Hum- 
boldt  Park.  All  in  all  the  park  system  of 
Chicago  has  provided  recreation  in  all 
forms  conducive  to  health  as  well  as  pleas- 
ure. 

The  Small  Park  system  has  grown  to 
great  proportions  and  to  being  equipped 
with  all  modern  appliances  for  the  pleasure, 
uplift  and  health  of  those  in  the  congested 
districts  of  the  city.  These  special  parks 
are  governed  by  men  appointed  by  the 
mayor  of  the  city.  They  consist  of  fifty-nine 
small  parks  and  squares,  will  distributed 
and  located,  several  bathing  beaches  and 
municipal  playgrounds,  these  latter  origi- 
nating in  Chicago  and  commanding  the  at- 
tention of  all  interested  in  sociological 
work. 

Following  the  boulevard  system  one  ar- 
rives on  Garfield  Boulevard  on  the  south 
side,  where  the  activities  of  the  South  Side 
Commissioners  are  observable.  Directing 
from  an  imposing  administration  building 
in  Washington  Park,  these  men  control  a 
large  area  of  92.6  square  miles,  but  they 
are  appointed  by  the  circuit  judges  and  are 
five  in  number. 

Washington  Park  has  an  area  of  371 
acres  and  has  boating  facilities,  baseball 
and  football  fields,  tennis  and  croquet 
courts,  archery  range,  a  sand  court  for  chil- 
dren, a  speedway  and  an  equestrian  path,  a 
music  pavilion  and  winter  skating.  A  large 
refectory  caters,  as  in  all  the  parks,  to  the 
hunger  of  the  citizen  while  there.  At  the 
entrance  is  the  only  statue,  an  equestrian  of 
Washington.  The  rose  garden,  the  formal 
garden,  the  tree  that  Grant  planted,  the 
mineral  well  where  a  floating  debating  so- 
ciety frequently  meets  by  chance,  and  in 
which  much  philosophy  is  heard,  the  russet 
sunsets,  the  golden  light  of  noon,  the  soft 
light  of  twilight  and  the  flickering  shadows 


of  moonlight  on  the  bordered  walks  fringed 
with  green  branches,  are  all  features  which 
the  artist,  the  tourist  and  the  sociologist  en- 
joy. 

Jackson  Park  is  connected  with  Wash- 
ington Park  by  the  long  stretch  of  scenic 
beauty,  known  as  the  Midway.     Sometime 
soon  the  Fountain  of  Time  by  Lorado  Taft 
will  be  placed  at  Cottage  Grove  avenue,  the 
entrance  to  this  mile  of  sunken  garden  in 
prospect,   lined   with   the  buildings   of  the 
University  of  Chicago.     A  park  in  its  en- 
tirety even  now,  when  completed,  the  Mid- 
way  will   be  transformed.     Jackson   Park 
covers  542.89  acres  and  has  all  the  facilities 
of  Washington  Park  with  two  golf  links, 
one  of  nine  and  the  other  of  eighteen  holes. 
Shelters,  lockers  and  showers  for  men  and 
women  are  provided  for  the  golfers'  com- 
fort.   The  Wooded  Island  with  the  gift  of 
Japan,   its   exhibit   in    1893,   the   charming 
rose  garden,  the  German  building,  also  a 
relic   of    the    Columbian    Exposition    year, 
the  replica  of  the  Convent  of  La  Rabida. 
now  a  baby  sanitorium,  the  yachting  basin 
where  the  caravels  should  be,  instead  of  be- 
ing dragged  to  the  Panama  Exposition,  the 
Life-Saving  Station  and  other  equally  at- 
tractive features  lend  interest  at  Jackson 
Park.     The  Iowa  building,  a  pavilion,  and 
the  Maryland  building,  also  relics  of  those 
historic  days,  are  also  in  this  park.     As  an 
Art  Palace,  the  Field  Columbian  Museum 
has  already  been  mentioned  earlier  in  this 
sketch.     One  looks  for  the  Viking's  boat 
and  the  Cahokia  Court  House  and  feels  re- 
warded  after    inspection.     Jackson     Park 
keeps  the  spirit  of  its  great  White  City  so 
dear  to  all  Americans  as  one  of  the  finest 
structural  and  artistic  creations  ever  erect- 
ed.    It  is  unsurpassed  for  beauty  as  Lake 
Michigan  sparkles  and  dances  in  the  sun- 
shine, or  tosses  and  tumbles  as  a  tumultu- 
ous, overwhelming  and  powerful  body  of 
water,  awe-inspiring  in  grandeur  when  a 
northeaster  stirs  it  to  fury. 


(1) Garden  in  Humboldt  Park;    (2)    Garden  in  Washington  Park;    (3)    Pergola  in  Independence   Square; 
<4)   Entrance  to  Conservatory,  Humboldt  Park.         — Henry  Fuermann  &  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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The  South  Park  Commissioners  have 
control  over  many  parks  and  squares  cov- 
ering a  wide  area  in  which  the  field  houses 
and  playgrounds  with  their  splendid  com- 
munity activities  are  classified  as  for  health, 
social,  civic  and  efficiency.  A  volume  would 
not  contain  the  wealth  of  service  the  Chi- 
•cago  Park  Commissioners  control  and  de- 
velop ;  nor  will  it  be  possible  to  mention  the 
parks  and  squares  by  name ;  but  all  are  ap- 
propriately, familiarly  given  titles  to  enlist 
the  enthusiasm  and  co-operation  of  the 
communities.  Amusement  Parks  are  feat- 
ures of  Chicago  and  on  the  South  Side  one 
.finds  the  Midway  Gardens,  created  by 
Frank  Lloyd  Wright,  in  which  genuine  mu- 
sic is  dispensed  by  efficient  and  expert  mu- 
sicians. The  Bismarck  Garden  on  the 
North  Side  has  also  a  clientele  which  de- 
mands the  best  in  music.  Chicago  is  mak- 
ing wondrous  strides  and  permanently  cre- 
ating a  standard  of  culture  that  makes  for 
.her  future. 

Chicago  impresses  the  visitor  with  her 
real  value  through  her  parks  and  drive- 
ways and  her  interest  in  the  historical  as- 
pect of  her  development.  At  the  foot  of 
Michigan  boulevard,  on  the  site  of  Fort 
Dearborn,  is  a  tablet  recording  that  fact; 
•on  East  Eighteenth  street  is  a  sculptured 
.group  commemorating  the  massacre  of 
Fort  Dearborn,  in  the  Iroquois  Hospital  is 
.an  artistic  tablet  in  memory  of  the  terrible 
catastrophe  in  the  theater  of  that  name;  a 
monument  of  the  fire  of  1871  is  also  placed 
where  the  fire  originated;  at  Market  and 
Lake  the  Lincoln  Wigwam  is  on  record;  a 
Across  marks  the  spot  where  Pere  Marquette 
and  Joliet  first  landed  on  South  Robey 
street ;  Glencoe  has  marked  the  Indian  trail, 
The  Waubansee  Stone,  six  feet  tall  and 
three  feet  square,  is  one  of  the  few  authen- 
tic relics  of  Chicago  when  it  was  a  military 
post ;  standing  on  this  stone  Daniel  Web- 
ster made  a  speech  in  1837. 

Parks  and    driveways    of    Chicago    are 
sources   of   wonder  to  travelers,   for   it  is 


rare  to  find  such  as  these,  and  on  such  an 
extensive  scale  in  so  young  a  city.  They 
are  as  accessible  by  car  lines  as  by  motor 
and  the  millions  who  enjoy  their  privileges 
and  delights  cannot  be  computed.  Service, 
expense  and  vigilance  unite  with  the  intel- 
lect of  Chicago's  conservative  commission- 
ers in  giving  this  metropolis  occasion  to  feel 
great  pride  and  in  honoring  all  who  care  to 
understand  the  West  of  America.  Sixty  or 
seventy  public  neighborhood  centers  assist 
in  the  magnificent  work  of  making  a  citi- 
zen and  more  largely  these  centers  are  in 
the  foreign  quarters  which  are  represented 
by  over  forty  nationalities. 

Observation  is  one  of  the  best  means  of 
cultivating  a  sense  of  the  beautiful  and  the 
parks  and  driveways  of  Chicago  afford  a 
rich  display.  Landscape  gardening  is  a  sci- 
ence that  is  just  becoming  appreciated  and 
the  desire  for  civic  betterment  requires  a 
knowledge  of  the  science  if  the  true  sense 
of  beauty  and  utility  combined  is  to  be 
used  in  the  treatment  of  out-door  architec- 
ture. In  the  past,  straight  lines  and  angles 
have  been  most  generally  followed,  an  er- 
ror easily  corrected  by  expert  students  of 
that  science  of  city  planning  for  the  future. 
Planting  trees  and  shrubs  as  adapted  to 
season,  environment  and  proportion  is  con- 
sidered, especially  in  the  playground  dis- 
tricts. In  the  poorer  and  congested  dis- 
tricts of  a  great  city,  the  unwelcome  sights 
must  be  shut  out  in  order  that  the  child 
may  have  a  change  of  thought,  and  an  in- 
spiration for  something  higher  than  the  dull 
monotony  of  his  daily  existence ;  hence  the 
trees  and  hedges  will  grow  in  time  and  give 
him  an  appreciation  of  Nature  when  shut 
within  the  grounds  where  he  finds  his  pleas- 
ures. 

Parks  have  been  most  carefully  planned 
for  this  result  in  their  pleasing  variety  of 
lagoons,  water  gardens,  lily  pools,  islands 
and  their  walks  and  drives.  Nature  is  here 
presented  to  the  child,  as  in  his  neighbor- 
hood gardens.  There  are  also  the  city  gar- 


(l)Bathing  Scene,  Lincoln  Park;    (2)    and   (4)    Municipal  Pier;    (3)    Scene  on  Sheridan  Road;   (5)   Bath- 
ing Scene  at  Chicago  Beach.  — Henry  Fuermann  d  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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dens,  where  the  child  and  adult  take  pleas- 
ure in  raising  vegetables  and  flowers  on  va- 
cant lots,  the  results  having  been  prodigious 
in  the  moral  and  sanitary  uplift.  Terraced 
effects  and  curved  bridges  as  in  Japan  have 
been  employed  in  the  parks,  while  the 
graceful  curves  of  the  silvery  water  as  it 
springs  from  delicately  designed  fountains 
cause  unalloyed  delight.  On  the  city  streets 
the  window  box  is  becoming  an  established 
fact  in  Chicago  and  the  tourist  is  thus 
somewhat  prepared  for  the  masses  of 
green,  the  light  and  shade  of  the  park  and 
boulevard  system. 

Chicago  evidences  a  spirit  of  apprecia- 
tion in  its  art  progress,  but  the  errors  of  the 
past  in  acceptance  of  inartistic  modeling  or 
crude  architecture  will  not  be  repeated  with 
the  alert  interest  now  predominating  to  cor- 
rect and  avoid  these  errors.  Artists  find  in- 
spiration in  the  exquisite  scenic  effects  of 
the  trees,  pools  and  hedges.  Sketching 
classes  occasionally  chance  on  a  visiting 
artist  at  his  easel  and  his  enthusiasm  is  un- 
bounded. The  flower-beds,  the  fountains, 
the  training  of  trees  and  their  remarkable 
preservation  are  subjects  for  thought.  It  is 
unfortunate  that  Grant  Park  is  still  a 
wretched  area  and  the  lounging  place  for 
the  submerged  tenth,  when  it  could  be  made 
-a  scene  of  beauty.  Commercialism  domi- 
nates and  retards  the  efforts  of  the  commis- 
sioners who  must  be  restless  under  the  de- 
lay. Hovever,  the  Mary-Ann  front  of  Chi- 
cago is  more  than  recompensed  by  the 
•Queen-Ann  back  as  visualized  in  the  chain 
of  parks  and  boulevards. 

Chicago  has  over  a  million  foreign  resi- 
dents who  appreciate  the  parks  and  when  it 


is  known  that  it  is  the  second  largest  Bo- 
hemian city  in  the  world,  the  third  Swedish, 
the  third  Norwegian,  the  fourth  Polish  and 
the  fifth  German,  one  is  not  surprised  to 
find  evidences  of  their  contributions  of 
sculpture  to  beautify  the  parks.  The  ap- 
proximate expense  of  maintaining  the  park 
system  is  over  $2,000,000  annually ;  but  the 
benefit  to  its  nearly  three  million  popula- 
tion in  the  making  for  better  citizenship,  a 
more  healthful  community,  is  inestimable. 
"Landscape  gardening  is  as  applicable  to 
the  ordinary  back  yard  as  to  extensive  es- 
tates and  parks,  other  things  being  equal, 
sunlight  and  soil.  The  only  difference  be- 
tween the  two  is  one  of  magnitude  or  scale. 
No  better  example  of  the  tiny  garden  can 
be  found  than  those  created  by  the  wonder- 
working Japanese  gardener.  On  a  plot  of 
ground  the  size  of  an  ordinary  back  yard 
they  will  lay  out  a  garden  in  which  one  can 
almost  lose  himself.  Flowers,  shrubs, 
walks  and  water  in  the  form  of  a  pool  or 
tiny  stream  go  to  make  these  places  a  thing 
of  beauty  and  a  joy  forever."  This  excel- 
lent suggestion  from  the  Toledo  Museum 
News  is  most  timely :  if  Chicago's  parks  im- 
press with  their  splendor,  their  utility 
and  their  informal  atmosphere  why  not 
try  to  emulate  them.  The  toy  Japanese 
garden,  the  table  ornament,  now  so  acces- 
sible, is  ideal  in  assisting  to  carry  out  the 
idea  for  the  window  box  or  the  back  yard 
and  thus  one  can  have  a  landscape  garden 
on  his  own  premises.  Chicago's  parks  and 
driveways  are  educational  as  well  as  re- 
freshing and  beautiful.  Their  influence 
should  be  far-reaching. 


(1)   Bathing  Scenes,  Eckhart  Park;  (2)  Bathing  Scenes,   Pulaski   Park;    (3)    Bathing    Scenes,   Standford 
Park;  (4)  Bathing  Scenes,  Gar  field  Park.  — Henry  Fuermann  d  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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By    MYRON    H.    WEST 

Pr  elide  nt     Amer    can     Park     Bu     Id  en 


MUNICIPAL  Art  in  Chicago  is  often 
regarded  to  be  lacking.  Unfortu- 
nately few  visitors  leave  the  city 
with  a  great  admiration  of  our  public 
buildings  and  other  civic  features.  It  is 
true  in  a  great  measure  that  the  decoration 
of  Chicago  has  in  a  way  been  subordinated 
to  that  wonderful  commercial  activity 
which  has  been  responsible  for  the 
city's  being.  It  would  have  been  nothing 
short  of  miraculous  had  our  untutored, 
pioneer  forefathers  been  able  to  build  a 
city  of  Chicago's  magnitude  out  of  the  very 
mud  of  the  prairie  and  at  the  same  time 
give  to  it  the  polish  and  the  finish  which 
characterizes  the  old  centers  of  civiliza- 
tion in  Europe. 

That  ordinary  business  prudence  was  lost 
sight  of  in  the  laying  out  of  the  city  which 
could  have  been  managed  economically 
with  it,  is  not  surprising.  Many  of  the 
early  builders  of  Chicago  were  plebeian  and 
poor,  and  not  having  received  the  benefits 
of  education  or  travel  knew  little  of  the 
art  of  city  building.  A  later  generation, 
plunging  into  the  fascinating  game  of 
money  making  and  seeing  in  Chicago  large- 
ly a  place  in  which  to  delve  in  the  rich 
mines  of  natural  resources,  cared  less  for 
the  city  in  a  sentimental  way.  They  only 
hoped  to  be  able  to  retire  to  more  livable 
sections  when  their  fortunes  should  be 
made.  It  has  been  thus  in  many  western 
cities ;  but  people  frequently  underestimate 
the  length  of  human  life  and  before  these 
riches  were  to  exist  another  generation  was 
firmly  implanted  in  the  city's  organism. 

The  overgrown  village,  destroyed  by  fire 
in  1871,  therefore,  took  on  similar  condi- 
tions when  rebuilt ;  for,  what  was  the  use  ? 
By  many  Chicago  was  not  expected  to  be 
a  home,  but  merely  a  place  in  which  to  live 
— a  place  for  greater  convenience  in  mak- 


ing money.  Attempts  at  civic  decoration 
were  systematically  and  successfully  com- 
bated. Lincoln  Park  and  Union  Park,  the 
first  oases  in  the  great  desert  of  mundane 
shacks,  became  possible  only  after  a  bitter 
and  well  nigh  successful  antagonism ;  while 
the  laying  aside  of  the  small  units  making 
up  the  West  Park  System,  the  connecting 
links  which  later  were  developed  as  park- 
ways, and  the  large  tracts  which  constitute 
Washington  and  Jackson  Parks  at  least 
were  not  prompted  by  a  great  spirit  of  civic 
patriotism  in  the  breasts  of  the  majority. 
Had  it  existed  and  had  it  been  efficiently 
directed  it  would  have  doubtless  made  ap- 
plicable the  term  "Garden  City." 

A  new  era  dawned  for  Chicago  at  the 
time  of  the  World's  Fair.  For  the  first  time- 
its  people  received  an  inspiration.  For  the 
first  time  they  realized  fully  the  value  of 
an  artistic  arrangement  of  buildings  and 
grounds  as  an  attraction  for  new  people 
with  their  dollars.  They  realized  that  civic 
beauty  could  be  commercialized,  a  lesson 
which  they  might  have  learned  from  Paris ; 
and  although  their  ardor  was  dampened  by 
the  subsequent  financial  crisis,  a  seed  was 
sown  twenty  years  ago  which  has  been  kept 
alive,  has  germinated  and  is  now  putting 
forth  the  plant  which  must  inevitably  bloom 
and  is  making  of  Chicago  a  good  city  in 
which  to  live. 

Chicago  is  like  an  overgrown  farmer 
girl,  still  awkward,  still  with  a  dirty  face, 
is  still  uncultured  and  uncouth  and  is  grow- 
ing so  rapidly  that  the  bare  necessities  of 
raiment  can  hardly  be  supplied.  But  a 
change  is  being  wrought.  The  girl  is  fast 
growing  into  womanhood  and  contact  with 
the  outside  world  is  bringing  forth  an  in- 
herent though  long  latent  culture.  Chicago 
has  no  public  buildings  entirely  worthy  of 
her  size  and  wealth.  She  has  too  few 


(1)   Bathing  Scene,  Standford  Park;   (2)   Beach  in  Front  of  German  Building;   (3)    Playground.  Sherman 
Park;   (4)   Playground,  McKinley  Park.  — Henry  Fuermann  d  Sons,  Architectural  Photographers 


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Page  Eighty-seven 


bridges  of  beauty  spanning  a  well  kept  river 
and  looking  out  over  beautiful  river  banks. 
Chicago  has  little  good  statuary  save  a  few 
copies  in  the  Art  Institute  and  possibly  one 
or  two  exceptions  among  the  motley  as- 
semblage in  Lincoln  Park. 

Chicago's  streets  lack  sufficient  trees  and 
those  which  persist  among  the  none  to 
favorable  conditions  are  left  largely  to  care 
for  themselves.  Street  decorations  are  in- 
adequate and  the  lake  shore,  Chicago's 
greatest  heritage,  is  unfortunately  not  open 
to  view  in  its  entirety.  The  one  completely 
satisfactory  element  seems  to  be  the  parks, 
for,  although  the  city  is  underparked,  con- 
sidering the  population,  and  although  the 
parks  are  not  ideally  distributed,  and  worst 
of  all,  are  in  danger  of  being  lost  sight  of 
in  the  tremendous  on-rush  of  the  city's 
growth,  they  still  stand  for  the  high  water 
mark  of  Chicago's  civic  art.  It  may  not  be 
pertinent  to  dwell  on  Chicago's  park  man- 
agement, on  her  thirteen  distinct  park 
boards,  on  the  duplication  and  waste,  or  on 
the  disorganization  and  extravagance.  The 
people  of  Chicago  are  paying  dearly  for 
their  parks,  but  they  have  received  a  taste 
which  they  cannot  dispel ;  and,  although 
these  features  cost  thrice  what  they  should, 
the  people  gladly  contribute. 

For  the  most  part  real  landscape  art  has 
played  an  unimportant  role  in  Chicago's 
park  development.  It  is  distressing  to  look 
back  upon  the  metamorphosis  of  Chicago's 
parks ;  to  see  how  Lincoln  Park  has  been 
made  a  political  football  for  years ;  to  see 
how  that  might-have-been  lovely  spot  has 
been  sluttered  and  desecrated,  rilled  with 
monstrosities,  pillaged  and  plundered ;  to 
see  how  it  defies  in  its  layout  all  the  rules 
of  landscape  art.  Yet,  because  of  its  trees, 
its  beautiful  green  sward  and  its  magnifi- 
cent lake,  this  park  is  beautiful  still. 

It  is  sad  to  think  of  the  evolution  of  the 
West  Parks.  But  the  city's  disgrace  there- 
in was  palliated  at  last  when  with  one  su- 
preme effort  money  was  raised,  a  good  man 


was  secured  and  the  system,  rehabilitated 
from  end  to  end,  blossoming  out  like  a 
rose,  almost  over  night,  became  one  of  the 
crowning  examples  of  landscape  art  in  the 
west. 

On  the  South  Side  conservativeness,  good 
judgment,  and  real  business  management 
have  marked  the  development  of  a  system 
of  parks  which,  in  many  respects,  leads  the 
world.  First  of  all  a  consistent  policy  was 
adopted ;  a  recognized  landscape  expert 
was  commissioned,  and  the  structural  ar- 
rangement of  the  entire  park  system  built 
up  so  as  to  develop  a  contiguity  of  arrange- 
ment, making  for  the  highest  in  landscape 
and  human  utility.  A  system  of  play- 
grounds has  been  developed  which  has  no 
equal  the  world  over,  and  aside  from  the 
untold  benefits  which  have  been  wrought  by 
these  institutions  in  the  way  of  cleansing 
contiguous  slum  districts  they  stand  as 
high  examples  of  municipal  art  in  the  ar- 
rangement of  their  grounds  and  the  design 
of  their  buildings.  Doubtlessly  few  Chi- 
cagoans  realize  that  in  these  parks  to  the 
south  and  west  they  have  examples  of  real 
art  that  overshadows  all  other  examples  in 
the  city  and  in  the  middle  west.  Upon  these 
few  people  their  influence  is  having  its 
effect,  and  little  by  little  the  work  of  edu- 
cation is  going  on — an  education  which  fos- 
tered and  led  by  a  few  who  can  see  through 
the  veil  of  the  future  will  result  event- 
ually in  the  acceptance  of  a  program  such 
as  is  already  partially  set  forth  in  Chicago's 
plan.  This  will  result  in  making  the  Chi- 
cago of  today  and  yesterday — the  common- 
place, ill  kept  and  crude — into  the  Chicago 
of  tomorrow — cared  for,  conserved  and 
loved  by  her  citizens.  She  will  not  only  be 
a  garden  city,  but  a  real  and  livable  city ; 
one  in  which  home  traditions  will  exist,  in 
which  there  will  be  an  individuality  and  an 
existant  spirit  of  patriotism  which  will 
make  the  Chicago  of  the  future  what  was 
true  of  the  Athens  of  the  past. 


(1)  Athletic  Field,  Hardin  Square;  (2)  Athletic  Field,  Hamlin  Park;  (3)  Athletic  Field,  Fuller  Park;  (4) 
Athletic  Field,  Cornell  Square.  —Henry  Fuermann  &  Sons,  Architectural  Photographer* 


Chicago     Calls 

BY    WM.    McJUNKIN 


T 


1HE  city  that  boosts  the  most,  gets  the 
most.  Witness  the  continual  boosting 
of  New  York  City  by  residents  of 
that  great  metropolis. 

Citizens  of  New  York,  newspapers,  mag- 
azines, the  stage,  all  contribute  to  putting 
forward  for  popular  consumption  the  best 
and  greatest  feature  of  life  in  that  city. 

What  is  the  result?  New  York  City  en- 
tertains a  host  of  transient  visitors  who 
daily  spent  an  estimated — and  this  is  a 
conservative  figure — an  estimated  total  of 
$1,000,000.  These  visitors  are  in  New 
York  the  year  around — 365  days.  That 
means  they  spend  the  enormous  total  of 
$365,000,000  annually  to  the  increased 
prosperity  of  Manhattan  merchants,  hotels 
and  other  enterprises. 

Across  the  continent  we  have  Los  An- 
geles, a  city  of  wonderful  natural  attrac- 
tions, but  with  such  a  dearth  of  industrial 
activity  that  the  local  merchants  depend 
upon  the  lavish  expenditures  of  the  travel- 
ing public  to  keep  them  going.  And  they 
are  kept  going  because  California,  boosted 
always,  continues  to  attract  vast  hosts  of 
Eastern  and  Middle  Western  people. 

Now  I  do  not  deny  the  greatness  of  New 
York  nor  the  climatic  appeal  of  California, 
but  I  do  think  that  Chicago  is  entitled  to 
the  same  transient  revenue  that  the  previ- 
ously mentioned  cities  enjoy.  Eastern  trav- 
elers en  route  to  the  West  and  Western 
travelers  en  route  to  New  York  pass  in  and 
out  of  Chicago  as  quickly  as  they  can  make 
train  connections.  The  reason  is  they  do 
not  know  what  we  have  to  offer  them  in  the 
way  of  recreation,  residence  and  invest- 
ment. 

Western  buyers  go  to  New  York  to  buy 
their  spring  and  fall  lines  and  on  the  re- 
turn trip  they  stop  in  Chicago  to  pick  up 
some  small  tag-ends  that  they  did  not  get 
in  the  East.  What  we  should  try  and  make 


them  do  is  to  stop  off  here  on  their  way 
East — not  after  they  have  made  their  pur- 
chases. 

Newspapers  of  the  Eastern  cities  are 
eager  to  print  stories  of  violence  happening 
in  Chicago,  while  stories  of  a  constructive 
nature  are  not  used.  The  readers  of  this 
article  will  be  able  to  recall  in  their  own 
experience  how  often  they  have  been  in 
other  cities  and  have  scanned  local  news- 
papers in  vain  for  news  about  Chicago. 

The  human  mind  is  prone  to  accept  the 
sensational  and  the  Eastern  newspapers 
have  certainly  given  our  city  plenty  of  sen- 
sational headlines  and  a  large  percentage 
of  the  Eastern  traveling  public  has  been 
accordingly  misled  as  to  Chicago. 

It  was  a  realization  of  this  situation  that 
prompted  me,  after  a  consultation  with 
other  boosters,  to  prepare  a  plan  to  Boost 
Chicago  first — from  coast  to  coast. 

FACTS   ABOUT   CHICAGO. 

In  our  familiarity  with  those  things  for 
which  Chicago  stands,  we  ourselves  some- 
times overlook  the  greatness  in  which  we 
share.  This  was  brought  home  to  me  re- 
cently in  a  very  striking  manenr.  I  was 
returning  from  New  York  and  in  the  club- 
car  happened  to  "listen  in"  on  an  argument 
between  another  Chicagoan  and  a  New 
Yorker  over  Chicago's  vessel  tonnage. 

As  though  recognizing  a  kindred  spirit, 
the  Chicagoan  turned  to  me,  almost  in  des- 
peration, and  said,  "I  would  give  anything 
to  know  what  Chicago's  vessel  tonnage  is, 
so  I  might  convince  this  New  Yorker  that 
there  can  be  such  a  thing  as  an  important 
inland  port." 

Having  been  studying  up  on  the  subject, 
I  replied,  "About  1 1 ,000,000  tons  annually." 
Thus  reinforced,  the  Chicagoan  returned  to 
the  attack  and  the  New  Yorker  admitted 
his  ignorance  with  the  suggestion  that  "Chi- 
cago ought  to  get  busy  and  talk  about  her- 


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self,    for  the   whole  country   has   got  her 
wrong." 

We  are  inclined  to  overlook  our  own  city 
and  get  posted  on  the  other  fellow's  town. 

Therefore,  as  a  matter  of  information,  it 
is  well  known  that : 

Chicago  is  the  second  city  in  America 
and  the  fifth  city  in  the  world. 

Chicago  is  the  nation's  greatest  big  city 
summer  resort. 

Chicago  is  the  center  of  American  indus- 
tries, having  in  its  manufacturing  zone  11,- 
ooo  factories  with  an  output  of  more  than 
four  billion  dollars  last  year. 

Chicago  is  the  world's  livestock,  grain 
and  lumber  market. 

Chicago  leads  in  the  distribution  of  dry 
goods,  general  merchandise,  foodstuffs,  ma- 
chinery, jewelry,  pianos,  wearing  apparel, 
automobiles  and  household  requisites. 

Chicago  is  the  financial  center  of  the 
West  and  is  in  a  position  to  lead  the  partic- 
ipation of  the  Mississippi  Valley  in  Pan- 
American  trade. 

Chicago  is  the  world's  foremost  railroad 
terminus,  its  rail  system  comprising  more 
than  one-third  of  the  belt  line  mileage  in 
the  United  States,  giving  a  train-a-minute 
service. 

Chicago  has  a  water  front  of  thirty  miles 
and  an  annual  vessel  tonnage  of  11,000,000 
tons. 

Chicago's  Municipal  Pier  extending 
3,000  feet  out  into  Lake  Michigan  and  cost- 
ing $3,400,000  is  unequaled  in  this  country. 
This  great  pier,  municipally  owned  and  op- 
erated, is  an  indication  of  Chicago's  pre- 
paredness to  handle  the  volume  of  traffic 
which  will  follow  the  completion  of  the 
Lakes-to-the-Gulf  waterway. 

Chicago  has  473,141  families,  or  more 
than  the  cities  of  Cleveland,  Detroit,  Mil- 
waukee, St.  Paul,  Omaha,  Portland  and 
Seattle  combined. 

Chicago  is  the  healthiest  large  city  in  the 
world.  It  is  the  best  policed,  size  of  depart- 
ment considered ;  best  protected  against  fire 


and  disaster  because  of  fire  prevention 
methods,  which  have  attained  a  higher  de- 
gree of  efficiency  here  than  in  any  other 
city  in  the  country,  perhaps  in  the  world. 

Chicago  is  the  nation's  logical  convention 
city  because  of  its  central  location  and  am- 
ple hotel  and  housing  accommodations. 
Chicago  will  soon  have  an  immense  stad- 
ium on  the  lake  front  to  house  conventions, 
ceremonies,  and  outdoor  festivities,  this 
now  being  actively  under  way  through  the 
activities  of  the  Chicago  Boosters. 

Thus  prepared  and  fortified,  Chicago 
comes  to  her  hour  of  greatest  opportunity. 
Her  wondrous  record  of  past  achievements 
must  serve  now  as  an  impetus  to  still  greater 
triumph.  As  America  is  to  the  world,  so 
is  Chicago  to  the  nation.  In  the  national 
scheme  of  things  Chicago  must  be  a  thinker, 
a  worker,  a  builder.  Wherever  men  of  af- 
fairs gather  Chicago's  name  should  be  in- 
stantly recognized  as  a  synonym  for  energy 
and  action.  Chicago  must  be  made  a  place 
of  conspicuous  opportunity. 

In  Chicago's  "I  WILL"  is  an  ever-living 
inspiration  to  turn  our  plans  into  practice. 
In  those  two  wonderful  words  there  is  em- 
bodied a  standard  of  honesty,  courage,  fair 
play  and  ambition,  that  need  only  proper 
exploitation  to  make  Chicago  permanently 
attractive  to  the  people  of  the  entire  coun- 
try. 

It  is  my  belief  that  a  sum  of  at  least  $250,- 
ooo  a  year  for  a  period  of  four  years,  mak- 
ing $1,000,000  in  all,  should  be  invested  in 
advertising  and  merchandising  the  city  of 
Chicago.  I  mention  four  years  because  we 
must  figure  on  the  cumulative  effect  of  this 
advertising.  Thus  within  these  four  years, 
like  a  snowball  rolling  down  hill,  getting 
bigger  and  bigger  on  the  way,  so  will  this 
new  opinion  of  Chicago  become  an  increas- 
ingly bigger  thought  in  the  national  mind. 

It  is  the  constant  reiteration  that  gives 
advertising  its  power  to  drive  home  a  mes- 
sage in  the  public  mind  and  create  a  lasting 


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WILLIAM  McJUNKIN 


good-will.  That  is  what  we  aim  to  accom- 
plish, and  will. 

The  cause  is  such  a  democratic  one  that 
it  should  be  financed  with  equal  democracy. 
Every  man  in  business  in  Chicago,  large  or 
small,  should  be  given  an  opportunity  to 
share  in  the  glory  of  this  tremendous  civic 
endeavor. 

When  we  consider  what  transient  visitors 
mean  to  New  York  merchants  we  should 
back  this  plan  with  determination.  Statis- 


tics show  that  New  York  merchants,  ho- 
tels, etc.,  benefit  from  a  $1,000,000  a  day 
expenditure  by  that  city's  visitors.  Just 
think,  that  goes  on  every  day  of  the  year — 
$365,000,000  from  visitors  alone. 

Chicago's  location,  Lake  Michigan,  the 
known  health  of  our  city,  and  the  fact  that 
you  can  go  anywhere  "via  Chicago"  make 
it  logical  that  crowds  flock  here  if  the  peo- 
ple of  the  country  are  told  we  want  them 
and  are  prepared  to  entertain  them. 

It  is  to  that  this  advertising  campaign 
will  be  dedicated  and  if  we  all  get  into  the 
booster  spirit  we  will  accomplish  this  very 
important  objective  and  build  securely  for 
a  GREATER  CHICAGO. 

Recently  Mayor  Thompson  made  this 
statement  to  me  relative  to  this  plan: 

"I  feel  that  no  greater  responsibility  has 
come  to  us  as  residents  of  Chicago  than  to 
build  now  for  the  continued  and  greater 
prosperity  of  our  city.  If  every  active  force 
in  this  city  will  get  back  of  this  movement 
to  boost,  our  beloved  Chicago  will  be 
boosted.  But  we  must  boost  Chicago — not 
each  other." 

What  small  measure  of  favorable  pub- 
licity Chicago  has  received  in  other  cities 
has  been  due  to  our  great  Chicago  Plan, 
and  the  active  work  of  the  Chicago  Plan 
Commission.  More  than  one  hundred  and 
fifty-six  American  cities  in  thirty-six  states 
and  nearly  fifty  cities  in  thirteen  foreign 
countries  have  secured  Plan  Commission 
literature  and  have  given  favorable  notice 
to  Chicago's  effort  to  become  a  greater  and 
better  city.  For  that  reason  I  heartily  urge 
every  citizen  of  our  city  to  support  the  Chi- 
cago Plan  Commission  in  its  great  humani- 
tarian, social  and  commercial  endeavors. 


North    Michigan   Avenue    Development 


Courtesy     of     The     American     Architect 


MUCH  has  been  written  of  the  public 
good  that  can  be  accomplished  by 
the  architectural  profession  in  all 
communities  through  its  alliance  with  and 
influence  on  the  larger  measures  for  civic 
development  and  improvement,  especially 
as  relating  to  streets  and  buildings.  It  is 
recognized  that  the  greatest  opportunity 
exists  where  a  City  Plan  has  been  deter- 
mined upon  and  provision  made  for  its 
execution. 

The  Plan  of  Chicago,  which  owes  so 
much  to  the  genius  and  public  spirit  of 
the  late  D.  H.  Burnham,  has,  in  its  first 
great  step — its  development  qf  North  Mich- 
igan Avenue — presented  such  an  opportun- 
ity to  Chicago  architects,  and  they  have 
promptly  and  generously  responded  to 
its  call. 

Early  in  the  previous  year  the  North 
Central  Business  District  Association  (the 
name  of  which  has  since  been  shortened  to 
North  Central  Association),  an  organiza- 
tion comprising  the  principal  property 
owners  of  the  section  most  affected  by  this 
extension,  acting  with  the  approval  of  the 
Chicago  Plan  Commission,  invited  a  num- 
ber of  architects  to  meet  with  a  committee 
of  its  organization  with  a  view  to  enlisting 
their  interest  in  a  predetermination,  so  far 
as  possible,  of  the  architectural  treatment 
most  desirable  as  a  means  of  establishing 
the  character  of  this  most  important  link 
between  the  downtown  "loop"  section  and 
the  foremost  residential  district  of  Chicago. 
This  resulted  in  the  formation  of  a  commit- 
tee consisting  of  some  of  the  leading  Chi- 
cago architects  and  studies  of  the  subject 
are  illustrated  in  this  number,  as  delineated 
by  A.  Rebori  and  Vernon  Howe  Bailey, 
with  the  exception  of  a  sketch  by  Holabird 
and  Roche,  which  is  reproduced  directly 
from  the  original. 

The  architects  of  this  committee  agreed 


to  apply  their  services  to  the  proposed 
undertaking  without  charge,  the  property 
owners  making  themselves  responsible  for 
expenses  incurred,  and  a  work  went  for- 
ward which  promises  to  be  of  far-reaching 
influence  upon  the  architectural  future  of 
Chicago,  and,  indirectly,  on  that  of  other 
cities  which  may  profit  by  its  experience. 

This  work  of  the  Architects'  Committee 
may  appropriately  be  termed  an  experi- 
ment in  architectural  eugenics,  since  it  is 
an  effort  to  influence  the  architectural  char- 
acter of  the  street  before  its  birth;  or  at 
least  before  its  re-birth  as  a  boulevard.  It 
is  to  be  understood  also  that  this  is  in- 
tended to  have  a  very  definite  relation  to  the 
character  of  occupancy  of  the  future  build- 
ings fronting  on  this  street.  By  combining 
standards  of  architectural  treatment  with 
restrictions  as  to  the  kinds  of  business  for 
which  the  buildings  may  be  used,  the  own- 
ers of  the  extremely  valuable  frontage  on 
this  street  hope  permanently  to  maintain  its 
position  as  a  "quality  street,"  preserving  it 
from  the  deterioration  or  demoralization 
that  often  overtakes  some  downtown  sec- 
tions in  rapidly  growing  American  cities. 

To  this  end  a  voluntary  agreement  of 
binding  character  has  been  entered  into 
by  a  considerable  majority  of  the  property 
owners,  to  which  the  remainder  are  ex- 
pected to  subscribe  shortly,  providing  such 
restrictions  as  will  affectively  limit  the  oc- 
cupancy and  uses  of  the  buildings  to  such 
businesses  as  will  enhance  rather  than  in 
any  way  jeopardize  the  street's  possibilities 
as  a  location  for  high-grade  shops,  hotels, 
theaters,  offices  buildings  and  other  digni- 
fied business  purposes. 

The  importance  and  value  of  the  North 
Michigan  Avenue  development,  sometimes 
referred  to  as  the  Boulevard  Link,  is  ap- 
parent to  anyone  acquainted  with  Chicago 
streets.  From  Twelfth  Street  on  the  south 


MAKE    CHICAGO    ATTRACTIVE 


Page  Ninety-three 


LOOKING    NORTH    FROM    BRIDGE   SHOWING   MONUMENTAL   ARCH    TREATMENT 
Drawing  &y  A.  N.  Rebori 


to  Randolph  Street  on  the  north,  Michi- 
gan Avenue  is  130  feet  wide.  From  Ran- 
dolph to  the  river,  which  was  its  northern 
terminus,  it  was  only  66  feet  wide.  It  has 
now  been  widened  to  130  feet.  Beyond  the 
river,  swinging  a  little  to  the  east,  it  fol- 
lows what  formerly  was  Pine  Street,  which 
has  been  widened  to  141  feet.  The  river 
will  be  crossed  by  a  double-deck  bridge, 
now  under  construction,  the  upper  level  for 
light  traffic  and  the  lower  for  heavy.  The 
inclined  approaches  to  the  upper  level  of 
the  bridge  will  clear  the  cross  streets  adja- 
cent to  the  river  on  both  sides,  and  also  the 
railroad  tracks  on  the  north,  permitting  east 
and  west  traffic  to  go  through  underneath 


without  crossing  the  light  vehicle  roadway. 
Thus  is  provided  a  broad  and  unbroken 
thoroughfare  between  downtown  Michigan 
Avenue  and  Lake  Shore  Drive  to  relieve 
the  intense  and  constantly  increasing  con- 
gestion which  has  existed  north  of  Ran- 
dolph Street  with  its  focal  point  at  the  old 
Rush  Street  bridge,  which  has  furnished  its 
only  passage  across  the  river.  The  contri- 
bution of  the  Architects'  Committee  toward 
the  prospective  development,  in  beauty  and 
character,  of  this  notable  street,  and  of  its 
relation  to  the  City  Plan,  is  a  work  which 
must  inevitably  redound  to  the  credit  of  the 
profession  and  stand  as  a  worthy  example 
of  its  public  spirit. 


I -V<K 


WALTER 
MOODY,    City 
Planning  Expert 


What     of     the     City? 


Managing 
Director  Chicago  i 
Plan  Com. 


(PUBLISHER'S  NOTE. — Doubtless  the  most  valuable  information  extant  about  the 
Plan  of  Chicago,  the  work  of  the  Chicago  Plan  Commission,  and  KB  identification  with 
the  remarkable  history  of  Chicago's  growth  and  development  is  contained  in  Walter  D. 
Moody*s  new  bock,  "What  of  the  City?"  Mr.  Moody1  s  book  received  wide  publicity  in  the 
Chicago  papers,  and  has  been  favorably  interviewed  by  such  noted  editors  as  Lyman  Abbott 
In  The  Outlook.  We  understand  that  500  copies  were  ordered  by  the  Army  Overseas  Educa- 
tion Commission  for  use  in  its  Department  of  Citizenship  in  France.  Emissaries  of  the 
Japanese  Government  have  asked  the  privilege  of  translating  it  into  Japanese  for  use  in 
that  country.  Mr.  Moody's  experience,  unique  in  city  planning  in  America,  undoubtedly  quali- 
fies him  alone  to  write  such  a  book.  "What  of  the  city?"  drives  home  to  every  American  in 
forcible  and  entertaining  style  great  truths  that  every  citizen  should  know,  and  it  contains 
a  fascinating  story  of  Chicago's  life  and  development  which  every  Chicagoan  should  be 
glad  to  possess.  The  book  is  published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.) 


THIS  is  the  greatest  story  ever  written 
about  Chicago.    Little  is  said  about 
the  years  of  unselfish  devotion  of 
Walter  D.  Moody  and  his  wonderful  asso- 
ciate— that    beloved    citizen,     Charles    H. 
Wacker — but  much  is  written  of  the  indi- 
vidual, industrial,  musical,  art  and  literary 
development  of  the  city.  Mr.  Moody's  book 
falls  into  three  chapters,  with  the  captions 


"Chicago,  Men  and  Things — Cradle  of  the 
Greatest  Plan";  "Inspiration  and  Influence 
— Music,  Art  and  Authors";  "Other  Influ- 
ences— Libraries,  Schools  and  Social  Cen- 
ters." There  is  a  chapter  about  the  origin 
and  history  of  the  Plan  of  Chicago,  created 
by  The  Commercial  Club,  under  the  direction 
of  Daniel  Hudson  Burnham,  and  a  chapter 
on  the  unique  organization  and  work  of  the 


MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACTIVE 


Page  Ninety-five 


Chicago  Plan  Commission,  which  has  been 
recognized  throughout  the  civilized  world. 

In  the  preface,  Mr.  Moody  points  out 
that  his  book  was  designed  to  meet  the 
avalanche  of  assistance-seeking  inquiries 
which  continually  flow  into  Chicago  from 
all  over  the  world. 

"It  is  hoped,"  says  Mr.  Moody,  "that  it 
may  point  the  way  to  those  engaged  in  city 
planning,  and  also  inspire  the  people  to 
action  by  showing  that  nothing  can  be  ac- 
complished in  the  move  toward  city  better- 
ment without  public  understanding  and  ap- 
preciation of  city  planning  needs,  problems, 
and  advantages.  Uppermost  in  the  prepa- 
ration of  this  volume  was  the  fact  that  the 
ballot  box  always  precedes  the  city  planner 
and  the  thought  that  only  through  a  quick- 
ened civic  conscience  lies  the  hope  for  coun- 
try-wide city  planning  achievement.  The 
future  tragic  heritage  will  not  be  the  sad- 
dling of  the  generations  to  come  with  the 
burden  of  paying  for  war  but,  as  a  noted 
economist  has  declared,  with  the  burden 
of  diseased,  of  shattered  men  and  other 
economic  losses.  What  of  the  city? — the 
home  of  the  majority  of  our  citizens." 

Mr.  Moody  strikes  a  series  of  hard  fistic 
blows  at  paid  reformers  who  are  eternally 
finding  something  wrong  and  never  sug- 
gesting practical  plans  of  improvement  and 
development.  He  handles  without  gloves 
those  enemies  of  Chicago  who  have  painted 
the  city  in  the  blackest  of  colors  and  pa- 
raded sin  and  violence  instead  of  recount- 
ing the  glories  of  what  he  predicts  will  be- 
come the  metropolis  of  the  world. 

Every  Chicagoan  interested  in  music  will 
prize  the  story  of  Chicago's  musical  devel- 
opment and  organizations.  Every  author 
and  all  literary  persons  will  be  amazed  and 
delighted  with  the  description  of  Chicago's 
550  authors  who  have  contributed  more 
than  4,000  titles  on  112  subjects.  Every 
citizen  interested  in  art  and  the  Art  In- 
stitute, the  Field  Museum.  Chicago's  won- 
derful libraries,  great  civic  and  business  or- 
ganizations, social  centers,  schools,  colleges 


and  churches,  will  find  "What  of  the  City?" 
a  veritable  beehive  of  readable  information. 
Every  railroad  official  and  worker,  every 
school  teacher  and  school  authority,  all  mu- 
nicipal and  governmental  authorities  and 
employes,  every  physician,  architect,  engi- 
neer and  all  technical  people,  every  clergy- 
man and  church  layman,  the  women's  or- 
ganizations, every  lawyer  and  all  scientific 
men,  every  retail  merchant,  wholesaler  and 
manufacturer,  will  find  this  new  story  of 
Chicago  graphic  and  dramatic  in  its  nar- 
rative of  its  mighty  achievements. 

Mr.  Moody  pictures  Chicago  in  a  new 
and  refreshing  light.  He  explains  that  he 
is  tired  of  hearing  "croakers  at  home"  and 
busybodies  from  abroad  tell  the  world  of 
Chicago's  shortcomings.  He  describes  its 
struggles  from  the  wigwam  of  the  savage 
to  its  present  proud  estate — the  world's 
fourth  city — in  two  generations.  He  graph- 
ically tells  the  story  of  its  mighty  commerce 
and  its  indomitable  spirit;  of  its  builders 
and  its  advantages;  its  beauty  and  its  ugli- 
ness, and  the  reasons  and  the  remedies. 

Its  educational  forces  are  pitted  with 
those  of  other  cities  not  to  its  discredit. 
Chicago  as  the  country's  foremost  music 
center  is  given  prominent  space.  The  great 
art  school  of  the  Art  Institute  is  described 
in  detail  and  as  a  city  of  authors,  there  is 
no  room  for  doubt  as  to  its  supremacy. 
For  the  first  time  a  complete  survey  is  made 
in  Mr.  Moody 's  book  of  Chicago's  remark- 
able range  and  number  of  authors. 

Its  wonderful  libraries,  superior  schools 
and  competent  social  centers  are  featured 
in  detail.  A  tour  of  the  parks  and  boule- 
vards is  made  alluring  and  is  embellished 
with  fine  illustrations.  Chicago's  world's 
greatest  and  famous  retail  shopping  district 
and  "Boul.  Mich.,"  its  wholesale  and  manu- 
facturing industry,  and  its  matchless  or- 
ganized life  are  told  in  a  gripping  story. 
There  is  a  telling  description  of  the  great 
Association  of  Commerce  and  the  incom- 
parable Commercial  Club.  School  teachers 
are  given  a  boost,  the  churches  are  righfTy 


Page  Ninety-six 


MAKE     CHICAGO     ATTRACTIVE 


designated  in  the  life  of  the  city  and  the 
public  authorities  are  encouraged  instead 
of  being  damned. 

The  story  of  the  function  and  community 
asset  of  a  daily  newspaper  is  vividly  and 
strikingly  set  forth  and  the  hope  of  the  fu- 
ture city  is  told  in  a  manner  to  rivet  and 
hold  the  attention  of  every  Chicagoan  and 
every  city  dweller. 

The  "muck  raker,"  the  "goody  goody" 
person,  and  the  pessimist  are  given  a  short 
shift,  and  the  worker  and  the  busy  man 
are  featured  as  the  real  builders.  Politics 
is  blamed  for  city  retardment,  a  shot  is 
taken  at  the  system  and  not  at  the  incum- 
bent of  public  office.  The  citizen  is  told  in 
no  unmistakable  terms  what  he  must  do  to 
aid  his  city  in  achieving  its  destiny.  His 
part  is  fixed  in  the  exercise  of  his  citizen 
prerogative  resulting  in  good  or  bad  city 
government. 

Mr.  Moody  helps  other  cities  which  are 
far  behind  in  the  stretch  in  the  race  for 
better  things.  He  warms  up  to  our  national 
defects  which  have  grown  out  of  urban 
crowding  and  he  tells  what  the  cities  must 
do  to  be  saved  from  evil  conditions. 

"What  of  the  City?"  is  a  fine  piece  of 
book  craftsmanship  published  by  A.  C.  Mc- 
'Clurg  &  Company,  containing  316  pages, 
64  fine  full  page  illustrations  of  Chicago 
scenes  and  twenty  other  American  cities, 
and  sixteen  chapters.  These  are,  Starting 
with  a  Right  Understanding;  The  New 
Profession — City  Planning;  What  Is  City 
Planning ? ;  American  Cities  —  Their 
Growth,  Needs  and  Dangers;  How  to  Go 
About  City  Planning ;  Elements  to  Be  Har- 
nessed; Publicity;  Misapplied  Energy; 
Municipal  Authorities ;  and  Some  Reasons 


for  Haste.  The  frontispiece  is  a  painting: 
of  the  lake  front,  and  there  is  a  fine  new 
portrait  of  Charles  H.  Wacker  and  a  pic- 
ture-of  the  original  Chicago  Plan  Commit- 
tee of  The  Commercial  Club,  showing  Dan- 
iel Hudson  Burnham,  Edward  B.  Butler,. 
John  G.  Shedd,  Charles  D.  Norton,  Clyde 
M.  Carr,  Edward  F.  Carry,  Edward  H. 
Bennett,  Charles  G.  Dawes,  Charles  H. 
Thorne,  Theodore  W.  Robinson,  Emerson 
B.  Tuttle,  John  W.  Scott,  John  V.  Farwell, 
Frederick  A.  Delano,  Walter  H.  Wilson 
and  Mr.  Wacker.  There  are  many  new 
pictures  of  Chicago  and  the  paper  cover  is 
a  reproduction  of  Vernon  Howe  Bailey's 
wonderful  conception  of  the  new  Michigan 
Avenue  extension. 

Mr.  Moody  believes  that  his  twelve  years 
of  public  work  in  Chicago  as  one  of  the 
builders  of  the  Association  of  Commerce 
and  of  the  Plan  Commission  and  in  numer- 
ous other  civic  and  national  projects  quali- 
fies him  to  write  things  about  Chicago  that 
others  have  overlooked.  His  work  as  a 
propagandist  is  known  throughout  the 
United  States  and  in  many  Europe  coun- 
tries. His  school  text  book  on  the  Plan  of 
Chicago  has  been  reviewed  in  Paris,  Berlin 
and  London  educational  periodicals.  He 
is  the  author  of  a  successful  work  on  sales- 
manship, "Men  Who  Sell  Things,"  which, 
after  twelve  years,  is  now  running  its  fif- 
teenth edition  and  has  been  sold  the  world 
over  where  English  is  spoken. 

Mr.  Moody's  book  i?  written  in  a  style 
so  characteristic  of  the  author  that  reading 
the  volume  seems  like  sitting  on  the  other 
side  of  the  desk  in  his  offices  in  the  Sher- 
man House  and  hearing  him  tell  the  storv 
that  is  nearest  his  heart. 


(1)      ST.   CLEMENT'S  CHURCH 

(3)      ST.  MARY'S  OF  THE  LAKE  CHURCH 

(5)      OUR  LADY  OF  MT.  CARMEL  CHURCH 


(2)  OUR  LADY  OF  SORROWS  CHURCH 

(4)  HOLY  NAME  CATHEDRAL 

(6)  CORPUS  CHRISTI  CHURCH 

(7)  ST.  AMBROSE  CHURCH 


(1)      ST.   JAMES   EPISCOPAL 

(3)      FOURTH  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH 

(5)      ORIENTAL   CONSISTORY   CHURCH 


(2)      EPIPHANY  EPISCOPAL   CHURCH 

(4)      NEW  FIRST  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH 

(6)      ST.  PAUL  EPISCOPAL 


Millions     for     H  o  m  e  -  B  u  i  1  d  i  n  g 


Chicago  Housing  Association  Launches  Huge  Program  to 
Promote  Home-Owning  and  Foster  Americanism  Among 
C  icago  Foreign  Workmen  and  to  Illuminate  the  Slum 
District  Marking  a  Great  I  ndu  stri  al  A  d  vance. 


CHICAGO  has  started  the  greatest 
work  of  industrial  housing  ever  un- 
dertaken in  America.  A  $750,00x5 
corporation  backed  by  a  group  of  Chicago's 
leading  citizens,  has  begun  work  on  the  first 
project  in  a  program  which  calls  for  the 
construction  of  10,000  homes,  which  are  to 
be  sold  at  cost  to  small  wage  earners. 

Behind  the  creation  of  this  well-financed 
plan — a  plan  which  has  for  one  of  its  ob- 
jects the  elimination  of  the  slums  of  the 
city — was  the  foresight  and  vision  of  a 
coterie  of  men  who  have  frequently  proven 
their  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  the  city  of 
Chicago.  This  newest  plan,  when  com- 
pleted, will  make  the  living  places  of  the 
workingmen  conform  in  beauty  with  all  the 
rest  of  the  city  as  it  is  being  developed  un- 
der the  city  beautiful  plan. 

Within  a  period  of  a  few  months  Chi- 
cago has  been  put  in  the  front  rank  of  hous- 
ing accomplishments  in  this  country.  While 
other  cities  have  planned  for  years,  Chi- 
cago, under  the  management  of  the  Chicago 
Housing  Assn.,  is  going  ahead  and  dirt  is 
already  flying  on  an  enormous  housing 
p reject 

It  was  only  last  June  that  the  first  of  a 
series  of  meetings  which  resulted  in  launching 
this  huge  building  work  was  held.  Since  then, 
to  realize  the  ideal  of  a  better  Chicago,  all 
needed  capital  up  to  $750,000  has  been  pledged, 
an  architectural  and  office  staff  to  direct  the 
work  has  been  evolved  and  brought  together, 
a  forty-acre  tract  has  been  purchased  and  put 
under  improvement,  and  the  Chicago  Real 
Estate  Improvement  Corporation  has  been 
formed  to  carry  on  building  operations.  No 


A    FIVE    ROOM    HOUSE    BEING    ERECTED    AT 
87 TH    AND    STATE    STS.    FOR    WORKMAN. 
ACTUAL    COST    $4,000.      CHARLES    S.    FROST, 
ARCHITECT. 


such  progress  on  housing  reform  has  ever  be- 
fore been  made  in  any  city  in  such  a  short 
time. 

In  this  new  movement  for  providing  work- 
ing people  with  modern,  well-built,  sanitary 
homes  at  cost  prices,  men  of  national  re- 
pute are  active.  J.  Ogden  Armour  and 
Thomas  E.  Wilson,  the  big  packers,  are  direc- 
tors. Harry  A.  Wheeler,  vice  president  of 
the  Union  Trust  Company,  and  former  presi- 
dent of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the 
United  States  and  of  the  Chicago  Association 
of  Commerce,  and  Harry  H.  Merrick,  presi- 
dent of  the  Great  Lakes  Trust  Company,  rep- 
resent the  banking  interests  on  the  direc- 
torate. 

The  building  and  material  world  is  repre- 
sented among  the  directors  by  William  Grace, 
head  of  the  Wm.  Grace  Co.,  erectors;  Herman 
H.  Hettler,  of  the  Hettler  Lumber  Co.,  and 
F.  W.  Upham,  president  of  the  Consumers  Co. 
The  world  of  realty  is  further  represented  by 


ANOTHER  flVE   ROOM  HOUSE   BEING 
ERECTED    BY    THE    CHICAGO    HOUSING 
ASSOCIATION — CHARLES  S.  FROST, 
ARCHITECT. 

Col.  Abel  Davis,  vice  president  of  the  Chicago 
Title  &  Trust  Company,  also  a  director. 
Charles  H.  Wacker,  chairman  of  the  Chicago 
Plan  Commission,  known  as  an  expert  in  real 
estate  finance  and  upbuilding  from  many 
years'  work  as  head  of  the  Chicago  Heights 
Land  Association,  is  also  a  director. 

The  general  business  world  of  Chicago  is 
reflected  among  the  directors  by  George  W. 
Dixon,  Dorr  E.  Felt,  Charles  W.  Folds,  A. 
Volney  Foster,  D.  F.  Kelly,  B.  J.  Rosenthal, 
J.  F.  Smietanka  and  Wm.  Wrigley,  Jr.  Labor 
is  represented  by  Simon  O'Donnell,  president 
of  the  Building  Trades  Council.  James  F. 
Basiger  is  the  general  manager  in  active 
charge  of  all  who  work  for  the  association. 

These  men,  who  make  up  the  strongest 
combination  ever  effected  for  such  a  purpose 
in  this  country,  state  the  purpose  of  their  asso- 
ciation to  be  "to  improve  housing  conditions 
in  Chicago,  and  to  encourage  small  wage- 
earners  to  acquire  and  own  their  homes." 
Their  plan  for  doing  this  brings  in  a  new 
principle  for  such  enterprises — that  of  de- 
voting the  profits  from  the  sale  of  business 
frontage  in  subdivisions  to  helping  buyers  of 
inside  frontage  to  pay  for  their  homes. 

In  the  first  plan  laid  out,  for  instance,  it  is 
expected  that  the  business  frontage  on  the 
two  business  streets  of  the  forty  acres  now 
being  developed  will  retail  for  enough  money 
to  offset  the  cost  of  the  entire  property,  so 
that  the  residential  property  may  be  sold, 
when  developed,  at  the  cost  of  the  houses 
built  thereon.  Thus  the  only  sums  in  excess 
of  the  cost  of  houses  to  be  charged  will  be 


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a  small  part  of  the  overhead  cost  of  conduct- 
ing the  enterprise. 

"Garden  Homes"  is  the  name  chosen  for  the 
first  project  to  be  launched.  It  comprises  the 
forty  acres  at  the  southeast  corner  of  State 
and  87th  streets,  extending  east  to  Indiana 
avenue  and  south  to  89th  street.  It  is  cut  by 
Wabash  and  Michigan  avenues  and  by  88th 
street.  This  property  is  now  being  improved 
and  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  basements 
at  this  writing  have  been  laid. 

An  effective  plan  for  model  housing  has 
been  adopted.  By  this  plan  the  subdivision 
yields  35  residence  lots  200  feet  deep,  and  140 
lots  of  162.5  feet  depth,  all  on  the  30-foot 
width  basis.  The  business  lots  are  uniformly 
125  feet  deep  by  25  feet  wide,  except  that  some 
corners  are  of  33  feet  width,  while  the  sec- 
tion-line corner  at  87th  and  State  streets  has 
been  made  a  75-foot  lot.  The  200-foot  lots 
are  in  Wabash  avenue,  east  fronts.  This  pro- 
vision of  lots  of  unusual  depth  is  a  striking 
feature  of  the  plan,  which  looks  to  encourag- 
ing home  gardening  on  a  considerable  scale. 

All  the  details  of  this  Chicago  plan  of  hous- 
ing show  careful  and  thoughtful  planning. 

As  to  the  selling  of  the  houses,  the  associa- 
tion is  working  upon  an  experimental  idea  new 
to  realty.  This  idea  looks  to  Americanization 
of  the  foreign  workman,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  the  gradual  solution  of  the  city's  housing 
problem.  The  two  elements,  in  fact,  go  hand 
in  hand. 

To  make  the  idea  effective,  the  management 
is  co-operating  with  the  social  service  and 
welfare  departments  of  a  number  of  indus- 
tries, notably  those  of  the  stock  yards,  in 
which  area  the  housing  peril  of  Chicago  is  at 
its  worst.  Workmen  in  the  factories  and 
abattoirs  will  be  encouraged  to  apply  for  the 
new  houses,  but  no  workman  will  be  sold  a 
place  except  on  expert  report  that  the  place 
where  he  resides  is  unfit  for  family  life. 
These  reports  will  be  made  by  expert  inves- 
tigators. If  a  report  is  satisfactory  a  contract 
will  be  drawn  and  a  house  sold  on  a  basis  of 
a  10  per  cent  initial  payment,  the  balance  to 
be  paid  in  monthly  installments  extending 
over  fifteen  years. 

As  part  of  the  consideration  for  selling 
these  houses  so  cheaply — practically  amount- 
ing to  a  gift  of  the  valuable  lot  on  which  each 
house  stands — the  buyers  are  to  agree  not  to 
resell  the  property  except  by  consent  of  the 
seller.  If  a  man  changes  his  employment  and 
{Continued  on  page  104.) 


BOOK     OF    CHICAGO—  ADVERTISING    SECTION 


D.  L.  Moody 


Mr.  Moody  as  sketched  while  speaking  in  the  Auditorium, 
in  1897,  during  his  last  great  Chicago  campaign. 


one  of  the  greatest  of  modern  times — 
on  the  spiritual,  moral  and  humanitarian 
side;  his  ministry  reaching  to  virtually 
all  the  important  cities  of  the  English 
speaking  world. 

For  many  years  he  worked  for  the 
betterment  of  Chicago  with  tireless  zeal 
and  remarkable  success. 

He  was  "the  greatest  citizen  Chicago 
has  yet  produced,"  said  a  leading  Chi- 
cago daily  newspaper  ten  years  after 
his  death;  and  his  legacy  to  Chicago  was 

The  Moody 
Bible  Institute 

planted  near  the  heart  of  the  city,  in 
order  that  its  many  hundreds  of  students 
might  conveniently  be  sent  forth  in  all 
directions  for  their  practical  Christian 
work  in  homes,  factories,  stores,  street 
meetings,  jails,  hospitals,  poorhouses, 

rescue   missions,   industrial   clubs,   social   settlements,   churches,   Sunday   schools,  and 

many  other  avenues  of  spiritual  and  social  ministry. 

For  more  than  30  years  this  great  work  has  unceasingly  been  carried  on,  week 

days  and  Sundays. 

TRAINING  FREE 

The  Institute  gives  free  training  to  men  and  women  in  the  Bible,  Gospel  Music,  and  Practical 
Methods  of  Christian  Work.  It  is  international  and  inter-denominational.  Its  plant  covers  23  build- 
ings. It  employs  30  instructors,  and  its  Extension  Staff  of  Bible  teachers  and  evangelists  conducts 
Bible  Conferences  and  evangelistic  meetings  in  all  parts  of  the  country. 

The  present  enrollment  of  its  Day  and  Evening:  Classes  is  above  1.600,  and  in  the  Correspondence 
Department  nearly  5,000.  Last  year  the  enrollment  of  the  Evening:  Classes  represented  2(i2  Chicago 
churches,  of  39  different  denominations,  and  136  trades  and  occupations. 

World  History  Testifies 

that    nations    have    fallen   when   apparently    at    their   highest    development    of    material    achievement, 
education    and    culture. 

Why?  Because  decline  in  their  religious  life  undermined  moral  restraints  and  national  character. 
Materialism,  pride,  greed,  pleasure-madness  took  the  reins  in  a  swift  gallop  to  destruction.  How 
true  the  words  of  Holy  Writ,  "Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they  labor  in  vain  that  build  it." 

The  most  pressing  problem  in  the  promotion  of  Chicago's  highest  welfare  is  the  spiritual  and1 
moral  problem;  and  never  before  did  it  press  so  urgently  for  the  earnest  attention  of  far-seeing 
God-fearing  men  and  women. 

Throughout  the  years  of  Mr.  Moody's  work  he  was  given  both  moral  and  financial  support  by 
John  V.  Farwell,  Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  Joseph  N.  Field,  Elbridge  G.  Keith,  Robert  and  George  Scott, 
N.  S.  Bouton,  Lafayette  McWilliams  and  other  civic  and  industrial  leaders. 

The  Moody  Bible  Institute  appeals  now  to  their  successors,  and  all  others  who  believe  in  its) 
work,  to  rally  to  its  support.  In  these  critical  times  the  financial  burden  is  very  heavy  and  there 
is  great  need  also  of  enlarged  equipment.  Visitors  and  investigation  are  cordially  welcomed,  or  full 
particulars  will  be  mailed  on  request.  Address 

The  Moody  Bible  Institute      153  Institute  Place      Chicago,  Illinois 


Northwestern  University 

YX7HEN  you  think  of  Northwestern 
**  University  you  do  not  realize  that 
there  are  more  departments  of  this  insti- 
tution in  Chicago  than  in  Evanston.  You 
will  appreciate  that  Northwestern  is  an 
important  part  of  Chicago  when  you 
learn  more  about  the  plans  for  a  Greater 
Northwestern. 


As  a  part  of  the  Chicago  plan  and  a  real  addi- 
tion to  the  improvement  of  the  North  Central 
District  of  Chicago,  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity intends  to  build  a  campus  and  a  large  group 
of  buildings  at  Chicago  Avenue  and  the  Lake 
Shore.  An  option  has  been  secured  on  a  nine 
acre  tract  and  plans  are  being  laid  along  the 
lines  as  shown  on  the  architectural  photographs 
reproduced  on  these  pages. 


in  Chicago 


It  is  proposed  to  raise  twenty-five  million,  a 
large  part  of  which  will  be  used  for  this  profes- 
sional school  campus  in  Chicago — four  and  one- 
half  million  will  be  spent  in  this  great  assembly 
of  halls,  libraries  and  dormitories.  A  two 
million  dollar  hospital  will  be  built  adjoining  the 
the  medical  school.  Buildings  will  be  erected 
to  house  the  Schools  of  Law,  Medicine,  Den- 
tistry and  Commerce. 


This  Greater  Northwestern  will  be  of  greater  usefulness 
to  Chicago  and  a  greater  opportunity  for  the  development 
of  a  greater  Chicago.  The  new  campus  will  be  a  wonder- 
ful addition  to  the  new  Chicago  plan  and  will  make 
Chicago  the  greatest  educational  center  in  the  United 
States,  as  well  as  the  leader  in  scientific  advancement 
for  the  entire  country. 

For  further  information  about  the  Greater 
Northwestern  Plan,  write  at  once  to  the 
director  of  the  Greater  Northwestern  campaign. 

North  western  University  Building 

31  West  Lake  Street  CHICAGO 


Page  One  Hundred  and  Four 


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{Continued  from  page  100.) 

desires  to  remove  from  Chicago,  the  associa- 
tion will  have  first  option  on  the  property, 
being  privileged  to  return  to  him  the  money 
paid  and  to  resell  to  another  party.  Thus 
speculative  dealing  in  this  real  estate  will  be 
prevented,  and  the  benefits  of  increased  values 
bestowed  on  the  persistent  man  who  sticks  to 
his  determination  to  become  a  home  owner. 

To  make  sure  that  each  family  shall  have 
a  home  in  event  of  death  of  the  bread-winner, 
a  low-cost,  decreasing  premium  life  insurance 
policy  is  to  be  secured  for  each  buyer.  Part 
of  each  monthly  installment  paid  will  apply  on 
the  insurance  premium,  and  in  event  of  death 
a  deed  will  be  given  immediately  to  the  heirs 
of  the  home-buyer. 

Another  feature  is  a  plan  for  a  community 
house.  This,  in  the  "Garden  Homes"  devel- 
opment, is  to  be  a  $10,000  building,  erected  in 
87th  street.  The  building  will  be  designed  for 
use  as  a  business  property  in  event  of  lapse 
of  need  for  it  as  a  community  center. 

As  a  means  of  stimulating  the  enterprise, 
and  so  giving  it  a  most  complete  trial,  ar- 
rangements have  been  made  to  cut  the  over- 
head expenses  to  the  very  minimum.  As  an 
instance,  the  association  is  provided  offices 


free  on  the  14th  floor  of  the  North  American 
building,  and  Moses  E.  Greenebaum,  treas- 
urer, has  arranged  for  the  Greenebaum  Sons 
Bank  &  Trust  Company  to  make  the  install- 
ment collections  without  charge. 

This  is  also  true  of  the  building  materials 
which  are  being  purchased  at  present-day 
cost.  These  savings  will  enable  the  Associa- 
tion to  sell  a  modern  fireproof  house  for 
$4,000.00. 

The  general  public,  and  the  business  inter- 
ests of  Chicago,  are  to  be  given  opportunity 
of  doing  much  to  back  up  this  enterprise.  In 
this  manner  will  those  who  want  to  encour- 
age good  building  and  housing  for  workers 
be  enabled  to  aid.  Each  house,  as  completed, 
\vill  be  mortgaged  moderately.  These  mort- 
gages, collectively  will  be  made  the  basis  of 
a  6  per  cent  bond  issue  and  the  bonds  of  $100 
and  upward  will  be  offered  the  public  by  all 
the  banks  of  Chicago.  These  bonds  backed 
by  a  scientific  plan  and  an  organization  of 
ample  means  and  ability  will  be  among  the 
best  realty  securities  to  be  offered  the  public 
in  Chicago.  Funds  obtained  by  bond  sales 
will  be  constantly  reinvested  in  new  proper- 
ties for  which  the  demand  is  unlimited  and 
will  be  for  many  years  to  come. 


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FOR 


THE  CORTO  RADIATOR 

This  new  French  design  is  in 
great  demand  for  its  efficiency 
and  its  graceful  and  refined 
appearance. 


All  Types  of  Buildings 

Vacuum  Cleaning 
Systems    Installed 

Our  Service  and  Guarantee  Mean 
Complete  Satisfaction 

BALDWIN  &  GLASSON 


Phones  Franklin 


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5635 


208  North  Wells  Street 
CHICAGO 


Speed  Is  Economy 

If  Th:s  Reo  "Speed  Wagon"  conserves  that  most  precious 
human  commodity  —  Time,  ^f  Time  is  the  essence  of  every 
contract  —  of  every  transaction  —  of  every  business  —  in  this 
twentieth  century,  ^  Speed  is  the  modern  equivalent  of  Time. 
If  Everybody  is  in  a  hurry  nowadays — and  rightly  so,  for  if  one 
would  not  be  outdistanced  in  the  race  for  success,  he  must 
keep  pace  with  the  rest  of  the  business  world,  ^  We  used  to 
think  that  tons  per  load  was  the  prime  consideration  in  a  motor 
truck.  If  But  we  now  know  that  ton-miles  per  day  is  the 
answer  to  all  transportation  problems,  whether  in  city,  sub- 
urban or  country  service.  If  And  experience  has  prcven  that 
this  speedy,  pneumatic  tired  Reo,  carrying  lesser  loads  but 
more  of  them  piles  up  to  its  credit  a  tremendous  tonnage — and 
at  a  lower  cost  of  upkeep.  If  Electric  starter  conserves  the 
energy  of  the  driver,  reduces  wear  on  motor  and  saves  gaso- 
line. 1f  The  electric  lights  add  their  quota  to  the  total  mileage 
by  making  night  driving  possible  and  safe.  If  For  fully  eighty 
per  cent  of  all  kinds  of  hauling  you'll  find  this  Reo  "Speed 
Wagon"  ideal.  If  It  was  the  pioneer  of  its  type  —  has  been 
standard  now  for  longer  than  any  other.  ]f  Reo  designed  and 
made  in  its  entirety  in  the  Reo  shops,  you  can  be  sure  of  its 
quality.  If  Uniform  excellence  is  a  Reo  attribute.  If  And  the 
very  name  Reo  is  a  synonym  for  dependability  and  Low  Upkeep. 
1f  Demand  is  —  thanks  to  the  proven  quality  of  this  product  — 
always  greater  than  the  possible  output  of  Reos.  If  So  the 
only  way  to  be  at  all  sure  of  obtaining  a  Reo  "Speed  Wagon" 
for  reasonably  early  delivery  is  to  see  your  Reo  dealer  and 
place  your  order  at  once,  ^f  Today — won't  be  a  minute  too  soon. 

Reo  Motor  Car  Company,  of  Chicago,  Inc. 


GOLD  STANDARD  OF 


THE    UNIVERSITY    OF    CHICAGO,    THE    QUADRANGLES,    1914 


The    University    of    Chicago 


THE  University  of  Chicago  is  situated  be- 
tween Washington  Park  and  Jackson  Park 
and  north  of  the  Midway  Plaisance,  itself  a  park 
connecting  the  other  two.  In  1890  this  was  a 
low-lying,  sandy  region  through  which  ran  from 
northeast  to  southwest  one  of  the  ridges  of  an 
old  lake-shore  line.  On  this  ridge  and  on  some 
of  the  hummocks  between  slimy  frog  ponds  were 
scrub  oaks.  Of  this  land,  close  to  the  site  of  the 
World's  Fair  of  1893,  Marshall  Field  offered  one 
and  one-half  city  blocks,  between  Ellis  and 
Greenwood  avenues  from  59th  street  to  56th 
street.  In  1891  one  block  was  exchanged  for 
an  adjoining  block  to  the  east  and  an  additional 
square  was  purchased ;  and  the  City  Council  va- 
cated the  portions  of  58th  street  and  Greenwood 
avenue  falling  within  this  space.  So  were  formed 
the  original  central  quadrangles.  Possession  of 
such  a  site  at  once  made  it  possible  for  the  trus- 
tees to  plan  the  erection  of  buildings. 

In  1892  the  lots  at  the  northwest  corner  of 
58th  street  and  Ellis  avenue  were  acquired.  In 
1893  to  John  Johnston,  Jr.'s,  gift  of  fifty-three 
acres  as  a  site  for  the  observatory  at  Williams 
Bay,  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin,  about  seventeen 
acres  were  added  by  purchase.  In  1894  the  lots 


at  the  northeast  corner  of  59th  street  and  Uni- 
versity avenue  became  University  property.  In 
1898  Mr.  Rockefeller  and  Mr.  Field  presented 
land  used  for  an  athletic  field.  In  1901  Mr. 
Rockefeller  presented  the  west  half  of  the  block 
between  Ellis  and  Ingleside  and  between  57th 
and  58th  streets.  Mr.  Ryerson  presented  most 
of  the  east  half  of  the  same  block.  Mr.  Rocke- 
feller also  presented  at  this  time  the  entire  block 
to  the  south  between  58th  and  59th  streets.  The 
trustees  also  bought  in  this  year  300  feet  at  the 
corner  of  57th  street  and  University  avenue.  In 
1901-2  was  acquired  the  Scammon  property  be- 
tween 58th  and  59th  streets  and  Kenwood  and 
Kimbark  avenues. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Rockefeller  privately 
bought  all  the  property  fronting  south  on  the 
Midway  for  a  distance  of  about  three-quarters 
of  a  mile.  In  1903  he  continued  his  private  buy- 
nig  until  he  owned  the  entire  south  frontage  of 
the  Midway  from  Cottage  Grove  avenue  to  Dor- 
chester avenue.  Mr.  Rockefeller  by  presenting 
to  the  University  this  land,  for  which  he  had 
paid  $3,229,775,  gave  to  the  institution  the  entire 
frontage  on  both  sides  of  the  Midway  Plaisance 
from  Cottage  Grove  avenue  to  Dorchester  avenue. 

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GEORGE  W.  PAULLIN 


IMPORTER 


MANUFACTURER 


HUDSON'S  BAY  AND 
RUSSIAN  SABLES 


FURS 


ALASKA     SEAL     AND 
SILVER  FOX  SKINS 


73    East    Washington    Street 

MICHIGAN  BOULEVARD  BUILDING 


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HIS  is  one  of  those  won- 
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located  on  Michigan 
Boulevard  on  a  site  but 
recently  occupied   by  a 
fire  engine  house.    It  tells 
the  story  of  progress  in 
the  rapid  beautifying  of 
Chicago,  which  is  going 
on  everywhere,  by  a  cour- 
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Mid- West  Box  Company 


General  Offices: 

1333-39  Conway  Building 

Chicago,  Illinois 


Box  Board  Mill: 
Kokomo,  Indiana 


Box  Factories: 
Anderson,  Indiana 
Kokomo,  Indiana 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Fairmont,  West  Virginia 
Chicago,  Illinois 


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COMMONWEALTH 
EDISON  COMPANY 

• 

has  played  an  important  part  in  the  | 
industrial  and  commercial  growth  of  | 

CHICAGO 

When  the  enormous  Central  Station  | 
generating  capacity  is  taken  into  con-  | 
sideration,  it  is  readily  understood  why  | 

DEPENDABILITY 

can  so  well  be  linked  with  EDISON  1 
S  E  R  V I  C  E— w  hy  ECONOMY! 
STANDS  FOREMOST  in  its  usage,  | 
and  why  EFFICIENCY  in  operation  [ 
is  assured. 

Our  engineers  are  at  your  service. 

Telephone  Randolph  1280,  Local  214  [ 
Contract  Department, 

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COMMONWEALTH 
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72  W.  Adams  Street 


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Saves  Time 
Reduces  Expense 
Eliminates  Errors 

The  Rapid-Fire  Machine 
for  all  Figure  Work — 
Addition — Multiplication 
— Division — Subtraction 

Let  us  show  you  how  the 
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mistakes. 


The  Contr oiled-key  is  an  exclusive 
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FELT  &  TARRANT  MFG.  CO. 


1713-1735  No.  Paulina  Street 


CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 


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FOOD  PRODUCTS 


The  Finest  Foods 

from 

Orchard,  Field  and  Garden 


are  offered  under  the 


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WHOLESALE  GROCERS 


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CHICAGO 

MADISON  STREET 

EAST  OF  LASALLE 

EUROPEAN  PLAN 

Famed  for  comfort.  The 
favored  meeting  place  for 
merchants  and  other  men 
of  business,  many  of  -whom 
bring  their  families. 

Convenient  to  the  wholesale, 
retail  and  financial  districts. 

Rates  Per  Day 

Room,  Detached  Bath  -  ?2.25  to  $2.75 
Two  Persons  -  -  4.00  to  5.00 

Room,  Bath  Attached-  3.50  to  5.00 
Two  Persons  -  -  5.00  to  7.00 

L.  R.  ADAMS,  President 
E.N.  MATHEWS, 
Secretary- 
Treasurer 


Lake 


Comfortable 

Pleasurable 

Convenient 


The  Cooper-Carlton  Hotel  provides 
every  convenience  and  gives  you  every  ad- 
vantage of  the  best  down-town  hotels  plus 
good  air,  quiet  and  pleasant  environment 
of  the  parks  and  lake. 

Cooper-Carlton 
HOTEL  -rd 

Blvd.     CHICAGO    Street 

faces  East  End  Park,  on  the  shore  of  Lake 
Michigan,  three  blocks  from  famous  Jack- 
son Park. 

All  Illinois  Central,  Michigan  Central  and 
Big  Four  trains  stop  at  53rd  Street.  Ten 
minute  express  train  service  on  Illinois  Cen- 
tral to  the  downtown  district  making  the 
hotel  most  desirable  for  transients  as  well 
as  those  who  desire  to  stay  awhile. 

Four  hundred  rooms,  each  with  bath  and 
two  large  clothes  closets.  European  Plan. 
Write  for  rates  and  further  information. 

W.  C.  VIERBUCHEN,  Manager 


745  Buckingham  Place 


Chicago's 

Leading 

Florist 


Chicago,  111. 


Kings  Model  Laundry  Co. 

The  Home  of  Correct  Laundry  Service. 
2213-19  W.  Madison  St. 


OWEN  AHERN,  MANAGER 

ARTHUR  AHERN,  A8ST.  MANAGER 

Telephone  Franklin  2303 


(NEW) 

HOTEL  GAULT 

Madison  and  Market  Streets 
CHICAGO 


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Hotel 


Lincoln   Park  West 
and  Garfield  Avenue 

Chicago 


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RESIDENTIAL  HOTELS 

CHARLES  H.  LOTT,  President  and  Treasurer 
EARL  S.  LOTT,  Secretary 


Lincoln   Park  West 
and  Webster  Avenue 

Chicago 


G.  H.  Gottschalk  &  Co.,  Builders 


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WHITE  PAVING  Co 

PAVING   CONTRACTORS 
17  North  La  Salle  Street 


H.  B.  Detweiler,  Sec'y 


CHICAGO 


near 


You  will  know  ONE  answer  if  you  visit  the 
nearest  Shop — 5  minutes  from  anywhere  down  town. 

106  N.  State  St.  (near  Washington  St.) 

170  W.  Adams  St.    (near  La  Salle  St.) 

17  S.  Dearborn  St.   (near  Madison  St.) 
Michigan  at  Lake 


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BIG  CREEK  COLLIERY  COMPANY 

PEOPLES  GAS  BUILDING 
CHICAGO 


EXCLUSIVE  PRODUCERS  AND  SHIPPERS 
OF 


Premium 


The  One  Publication 

in  Chicago,  which  reaches  an  international  clientage  is  the 

ROSENBAUM 
REVIEW 

a  weekly  magazine  devoted  to  commerce,  industry,  finance 
and  things  that  grow  in  the  dirt. 

$2.00  per  year. 
Published  by  J.  RALPH  PICKELL, 

417    Postal   Telegraph   Building,   Chicago,  111. 


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KARPEN    FURNITURE 

Sold  by  Furniture  Dealers 
Everywhere 

S.  KARPEN  &  BROS. 

Designers  and  Manufacturers 
CHICAGO  NEW  YORK 


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ADAMS  &,  ELTING  CO. 

716-726   Washington  Blvd.,   Chicago 

Telephone  Monroe  3000 
NEW  YORK  TORONTO 


Globe 

Laundry  Co. 

222-226 

South  Morgan  Street 

PROMPT 

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We  do  the  best  hand 

work  in  the  City. 

Phone  Monroe  6363 

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B-W  CONSTRUCTION  COMPANY 

BUTTAS   BROS. 


CONTRACTORS  FOR  INDUSTRIAL  BUILDINGS 


JOSEPH  H.  BUTTAS 


10  SOUTH  LA  SALLE  STREET 
CHICAGO 


JOHN  W.  BUTTAS 


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A  complete  engraving  plant — fully  equipped  for  intelli- 
gent service  and  the  finest  production  of  color  plates, 
half-tones  and  line  cuts. 


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SCOTT  JORDAN 
Pres.  and  Treas. 


ESTABLISHED  1854 

CADY  M.  JORDAN 
Vice-Pres.  and  Secretary 


WILMOT  WHITAKER 
Assistant  Sec'y 


C.  H.  JORDAN  &  CO. 

Funeral  Directors 

Complete   Line   of   Funeral   Furnishings 

164  N.  Michigan  Blvd.,  Chicago  Phones  Randolph  1346-1347 

Chapel  at  Each  Establishment 


1522  E.  53rd  St.,  Hyde  Park 
Phone  Hyde  Park  132 


612  Davis  St.,  Evanston,  111. 
Phone  Evanston  449 


Western  Undertaking  Co, 

177  No.  Michigan  Boulevard 
CENTRAL  368 


The  spacious,  modern  parlors 
of  the  Western  Undertaking 
Co.  are  for  the  convenience 
of  their  patrons.  It  is  an 
added  charm  to  the  new 
boulevard  link  of  the  city. 


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Akron  Tire  and 
Vulcanizing  Co. 

932-942  Jackson  Blvd., 

Corner  Sangamon  St. 

Chicago 

Truck  &  Pneumatic  PMC***  1102 

r_v.  Phone  4  Monroe  1101 

1    IfpC  I  Monroe  6043 


WE  DO  DRY  CLEANING 


Most  Modern  Fire-Proof  Sanitary  Laundry 
in  America 

Lake  View  Laundry 

Our  Motto  —  SLOW  and  CAREFUL 

3018-20  No.  Clark  St.,  CHICAGO  Telephone  Lake  View  289 


Federal    Fire    Proof   Storage  Company 

Warehouse  A  Warehouse  B 

1230-1232  North  Clark  Street  871-873  North  State  Street 

REMOVALS  —  PACKING  —  SHIPPING 

1230-1232  NORTH  CLARK  STREET,  CHICAGO 
ALL  TELEPHONES  SUPERIOR  9300 

ANNOUNCEMENT 

The  completion  of  our  new  seven  story  Fireproof  Warehouse  enables  us  to  offer  to  the 
public  30,000    additional   square  feet   of    storage   space.      INQUIRIES  .SOLICITED. 


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Are  you  one  of  the 
200,000  people  looking 
through  our  glasses? 

*Borsch&Compant/ 

OPTICIANS 

OPTOMETRISTS 

118    South    Dearborn    Street 


THE  GREENDUCK  COMPANY 

PHONE  SEELEY  2646 

MASTERCRAFTERS  IN  METAL 

VAN  BUREN  STREET  AND  HOYNE  AVE.,  CHICAGO 


The    best    remedy     for    all    stomach    disorders 

TRINER'S  AMERICAN  ELIXIR 

OF  BITTER  WINE 

Very  palatable  and  highly  efficient  in  case  of  indigestion, 
constipation,  headaches,  etc.  A  t  your  druggist's. 

JOSEPH  TRINER  COMPANY,  1333-1343  South  Ashland  Avenue 


Oriental 
Service  and 
Decoration 


The  Crowd 

Goes  to 

HUNG  FONG  LO  CO. 

Enjoy  a    Good   Time,    Good   Eating,    Drinking    and   Music.      CHOP   SUEY   A   SPECIALTY. 
Open  Day  and  Night.     Music  by  High   Class  Orchestra.     After  Theatre  and  Dinner  Parties 

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Hornthal  &  Company 

Manufacturers  of 

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1333  to  1341  Wabash  Avenue  CHICAGO 


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Kenneth  M.  Brad.ey" 
Pres.   tnd  Director  _ 

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Bush  Conservatory 


CHICAGO 


Edgar  Nelson 

Vice-Pres. 

E.  H.  Sehwenker 

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An  Institution  of  National  Prominence 
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Dancing        1 VI  \*J  O  M.  \^        Languages 

Faculty  of  more  than  Sixty  inciuaes  such  great  artists  as 
Charles  W.  Clark          Richard  Czerwonky         Moses  Boguslawski 
Uuftaf  Holmquist       Edgar  A.  Nelson  John  J.  Blackmorc 

Herbert  Miller  Mme.  Louise  Dotti          Edgar  Brazelton 

ONLY  CONSERVATORY  IN  CHICAGO  OCCUPYING  ITS  OWN 
BUILDING    AND    MAINTAINING    STUDENT    DORMITORIES 

For  Illustrated  catalog,  address 
T.  C.  JONES,  839  No.  Dearborn  St.      Phones:  Superior  8700,  8701,  8702 


American  Conservatory 
of  Music 


Chicago's  foremost 


School   of    Music 


FOUNDED 


1886 


The  American  Conservatory  is  universally 
recognized  as  aschool  of  the  highest  stand- 
ards, and  is  one  of  the  largest  musical 
institutions  in  the  country.  Ninety  artist- 
instructors,  many  of  international  repu- 
tation. 

SCHOOL  OF  EXPRESSION  and  Dramatic  Art 

Superior  Normal  Training  School,  supplies  Teachers  for  Colleges 
Pupils  prepared  for  LYCEUM    and  CHAUTAUQUA  engagements 


Modern  Courses  are  offered  in  Piano, 
Voice,  Violin,  Organ,  Violoncello,  Orches- 
tral Instruments,  Public  School  Mu-nc, 
Harmony,  Composition,  Physical  Culture, 
Dalcroze,  Modern  Languages  and  Dancing. 


Desirable  Dormitory  accommodations. 
Numerous  lectures,  concerts  and  recitals 
throughout  the  school  year.  Teachers' 
Certificates  conferred  by  authority  of  the 
State  of  Illinois.  Students'  Orchestra. 
Many  free  advantages. 


The  Conservatory  is  located  in  the  heart 
of  Chicago's  musical  center,  in  the  new, 
magnificent  sixteen-story  Kimball  Hall 
Building.  For  free  catalog  and  general 
information,  address 

JOHN  J.  HATTSTAEDT,  President. 


American  Conservatory  of  Music,  Kimball  Hall  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois 


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2721  Michigan  Avenue 
CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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CHICAGO.  PREP. 

NIGHT        TXTCTPTTTTnTT?         Credits 
SCHOOL       lINblllUlJtL      Recognized 

Earn  a  Salary;   Finish  High  School  at  Night 

FASTEST   GROWING    PREPARATORY 

SCHOOL  IN  CHICAGO 

A  school  for  mature,  ambitious  young  men  and  young 
women  who  can  work  their  way  thru  and  prepare 
quickly  yet  thoroly,  for  College  or  University — for 
the  Depts  of  Law,  Medicine,  Dentistry,  Pharmacy, 
Engineering,  Commerce,  Teaching;  for  Civil  Service, 
for  C.  P.  A.,  for  Nurses  for  Military. 

Entire  Teaching  Staff  University  M.  A.  Men 
31  West  Lake  Street  Central  3488 


CHICAGO 


LAW 


23  Years  Record  with  2,000 
Graduates 


Day  and  Night  High  School 
College  and  Law  Classes 

One  Subject  at  a  Time 
SCHOOL  Practice  3  Years 

COLLEGE  EXTENSION  COURSES  lead  to  Ph.  B., 

Ph.  D.,  D.  C.  L. 

CHICAGO    SCHOOL    OF   DIPLOMACY 
(Dept.  Chicago  Law  School)  Dean,  B.  Singer,  LL.  D. 
Foremost   Statesmen,   Lawyers,   Bankers,   Ambassadors, 
Consuls,  Speakers  and  Writers  of  national  and  international 
standing  are  instructors  and  lecturers. 

Preparing  for  positions  in  Central  and  South  American 
States  and  Europe,  1  to  3  years.  Courses  in  Foreign  Trade, 
Finance,  International  Law  for  Agents,  Secretaries,  Consuls, 
Diplomats  SALARIES  FROM  $3,000  TO  $12,000 

For  Law   and   Diplomacy   Catalogs   address   Chancellor  3.  3. 
Tobias,  53  W.  Jackson  Blvd.     Tel.  Wabash  5593. 


MAYO  COLLEGE  OF 

COMMERCE 

OPEN  TO   MEN   AND   WOMEN 
DAY  AND   EVENING   CLASSES 


TRAINING  FOR 


Accounting, 
Advertising, 
Marketing, 
Salesmanship, 
Traffic  Magt., 
Insurance  and 
Real  Estate, 


Foreign  Trade, 
Business  Magt., 
Consular   Service, 
Secretarial  Work, 
Public  Speaking, 
Journalism, 
Banking. 


For  descriptive  catalog,  write,  nhone 
(Central  1644)  or  call  NOW 

Mayo  College  of   Commerce 

1 102  Lake  View  Building 
1 16  S.  Michigan  Avenue  CHICAGO 


Columbia  College  of 
Expression 

Founded  1890 

Day  and  Evening  Sessions 

Evening   classes   conducted  by  regular  members 
of    the    college    faculty. 

A  college  which  appeals  to  women  and  men 
who  are  looking  for  thorough  instruction  and  an 
atmosphere  of  refinement  and  culture. 
Students  are  prepared  to  teach  Public  Speaking, 
Vocal  Expression,  Voice  Development,  Drama, 
Story  Telling.  Platform  Reading  and  allied 
subjects  in  High  Schools,  Private  Schools,  Col- 
leges, Universities  and  Normal  Schools. 
The  work  is  fully  accredited  by  the  Illinois 
State  Examining  Board,  and  by  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Education.  , 

The  demand  for  graduates  to  fill  teaching  posi- 
tions  is  greater  than   we   can  supply. 
Two   dormitories  are  maintained. 

Columbia  Normal  School  of 
Physical  Education 

Two-year  course.  Thorough,  theoretical  and 
practical  training  prepares  for  positions  as 
Physical  Directors  and  teachers  of  various 
branches  of  Physical  Education. 
Our  graduates  are  now  employed  in  Recreation 
Centers,  Young  Women's  Christian  Associa- 
tions, Public  Schools,  Private  Schools.  Univers- 
ities. Colleges,  Normal  Schools  and  in  Recon- 
struction Work. 

ADDRESS 

Columbia  College  of  Expression 

3358  Michigan  Avenue  Phone  Douglas  400 


Chicago  School 

of 
Expression 

and 

Dramatic    Art 

Incorporated 

LETITIA  KEMPSTER  BARNUM 

President 

THE  Chicago  School  of  Expression 
and    Dramatic  Art  was  established 
to  give  the  well  rounded  training  by 
means    of   which    alone    true    success 
may  be  acheived. 

Its  courses  of  study  are  soundly 
practical;  its  faculty  is  composed  of 
artists;  its  aim  is  to  develop  the 
highest  expression  of  the  individual 
and  to  combine  a  broad  cultural 
education  with  the  more  definite 
dramatic  studies. 

Fine  Arts  Building 

Suite  633  ' 

410  South  Michigan  Avenue 
Telephone  Harrison  5965 

Chicago 


BOOK    OF    CHIC  AGO  — ADVERTISING    SECTION 


IDA  C.  SOMMER'S 

Novelty,  Art 
and  Gift  Shop 

Chicago's  Most  Famous  Art  and  Gift  Shop 

3639  FULLERTON  AVENUE 
CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Let  us  make  up  your  gifts 

We  have  original  designs  of  encrusted,  etched, 
gold  dinner  sets,  vases,  fruit  bowls,  etc.,  and  guar- 
antee that  the  gold  on  any  of  our  work  will  not 
wear  off.  « 

We  also  have  a  large  variety  of  freehand  water 
color  pictures  and  hand  decorated  cards  for  every 
occasion  from  birth  until  death. 

In  our  Women's  Exchange  Department  we  have  a 
large  assortment  of  hand  embroidered  and  crochet 
work,  lingerie  and  novelties  of  all  descriptions. 


Compliments  of 

JAMES  S.  KIRK  &  CO, 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 


KIRK'S  FLAKE  WHITE  soap 
AMERICAN  FAMILY  soap 
JAP  ROSE  soap 


Republic  Trucks 


Over  60,000 
Satisfied  Users 


Republic  Truck  Company 

753  West  Jackson  Bcul. 


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FIXTURES 


A  complete  line  of  high  grade 
Closets,  Flushing  Valves,  Uri- 
nals, Drinking  Fountains,  Liq- 
uid Soap  Fixtures,  etc.,  for  all 
public  buildings. 

Complete   Catalog   on   Request. 
THE  IMPERIAL  BRASS  MFG.  CO.,  1200  W.  Harrison  St.,  Chicago 


BOOK    OF    CHICAGO  —  ADVERTISING    SECTION 


Jhe  Photo  Retouching  and  Grouping  also 
the  3  Color  Outside  Cover  for  this  Book 
executed,  by  Boecklen  Brothers  Who 
specialize  in  the  production 


Boecklen  Brothers 


538  S.CUrKSt. 


Phone  Wabash  23O5 


Chica0o.ni. 


F.  G.  Hartwell  Co. 

Coal  and  Coke 

Peoples  Gas  Building       Chicago 

Telephone  Harrison  1900          Private  Wires  to  Yards 


Main  Factory: 

25  W.  MADISON  ST. 

CHICAGO 


Factories : 
CHICAGO  AND 
OTHER  CITIES 


The  J.  F.  Rowley  Company 


INCOBPOKATED 


Manufacturers  of 
THE  ROWLEY  ARTIFICIAL  LEG 


Phone 
Central  5191 


ROOM  505,  MCVICKER'S  THEATRE  BLDG. 

CHICAGO 


A.  T.  Willett  Company 

Established  1868 

Operating  Three  Hundred  Teams 
and   Motor  Trucks 

CHICAGO'S  BEST  TEAMING  SERVICE 


DESIGNER  OF 

Distinctive  Frocks  and 
Gowns 

Announces  the  showing  of  a 

Wonderful  Collection 
of  New  Paris  Models 

These  will  be  presented  together 
with 

An  Unusually  Interesting 

Collection  of  Their 

Own  Designs 

E.  MUSHINA 

LADIES  TAILORING 
AND  DRESSMAKING 

1348  East  47th  Street 

Between  Lake  and  Kenwood  Aves. 


Continental  Auto  Supply  Co. 

737-739  Jackson  Boulevard 
Phone  Haymarket  S020 


C.  H.  BOYER,  Ptes. 


CHICAGO 


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This   Beautiful   Chinese   and    American 

Restaurant  is  the  most  popular  of  its  kind 

in  the  world.     It  is  noted  for  its  delicious 

cooking  and  good  service. 

Special  Musical  Program 
ALEXANDER  KAMINSKY 

Formerly  Imperial  Russian  Violinist 

Harry  Grant,  Cellist 

Anna  Kaminsky,  Child  Pianist 

Carlton  H.  Bullis,  Concert  Organist 

PERFECT  VENTILATION 

BANQUETS  AND  DINNER  PARTIES 
ARRANGED     ON    SHORT     NOTICE 

426-428  SOUTH  WABASH  AVENUE 
CHICAGO 


GOLDEN 

PHEASANT 

INN 

Chinese   and 

American 

Restaurant 

N.  E.  Car.  Madison  &  Clark  Sts. 

Phone  Randolph  4111 

CHICAGO 

The  Biggest  Chinese  and 

American    Restaurant   in 

Chicago 


CHIROPRACTIC 

The  Better  Way  to  Health 


Chiropractor  at  Work 

F.  H.  SEUBOLD,  D.  C.,  Ph.  C. 

1331  Stevens  Building         Hours  12  M.  to  6  P.  M.          Phone  Central  1722 

Lady  Attendant 

Note — If  sick,  investigate  the  merits  of  Chiropractic 


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Lincoln  Hand  Laundry 

5435  Broadway 
Chicago 


The  Wonderful  Chinese  Restaurant, 
Moy    Wah    June.    M  a  n  a  4  •  r 

57  WEST  RANDOLPH  STREET,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 
An  American  and  Chinese  Restaurant,  Serving  Both  Kinds  of  Dishes 

The  most  magnificent  oriental  restaurant  ever  built  in 
the  world — costing  $125,000.  Its  splendor  is  amazing. 
A  Chinese  Theatre  is  only  one  of  the  many  features 
to  be  seen.  Visit  it  and  be  pleased  and  surprised. 

TABLES   CAN   BE   RESERVED   BY   PHONE   OR   OTHERWISE 


Phone  Central  6876 


First  Class  Orchestra 


GREEN  MILL  GARDENS 

BROADWAY  AND   LAWRENCE 


Tommy    Rogers'    Novelty    Orchestra 


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The 

Illinois  Nurses' 
Registry 


and 

The  Illinois 

Post  Graduate  and 

Training  School 

for  Nurses 

Dr.  R.  G.  Schroth  fifteen  years 
ago  inaugurated  a  training  school 
for  nurses  in  combination  with  a 
registry  to  supply  professional 
services  of  the  highest  order.  From 
this  has  grown  a  great  dual  insti- 
tution, The  Illinois  Nurses'  Regis- 
try and  the  Illinois  Post  Graduate 
and  Training  School  for  Nurses. 

From  twenty-five  to  thirty  phys- 
icians of  the  highest  scientific 
achievements  lecture  to  the  classes 
of  the  school. 

The  laboratories  are  the  best 
equipped  in  the  country,  giving 
every  opportunity  for  experimenta- 
tion and  observation.  Graduates 
are  equipped  to  handle  compe- 
tently all  classes  of  private  or 
hospital  cases. 

The  Illinois  Nurses'  Registry 
directs  the  professional  work  of  the 
school's  graduates. 

Special  attention  to  doctors  from 
out  of  town  requiring  the  services 
of  car.  fully  trained,  efficient  nurses ; 
calls  received  by  telegram,  tele- 
phone or  special  delivery 


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OLD  ST.  MARY'S  CHURCH 

The  Catholic  Heart  of  Chicago 

Historical:   First  recoided  divine  worship  in  Chicago,  Father  Mar- 

quette,  1674.  First  church  organization,  St.  Mary's  Catholic  church,  State  and  Lake  streets, 
1833.  Present  Catholic  strength  in  Chicago,  a  million  and  a  quarter  of  people,  nine  hundred 
pastors,  two  hundred  and  tweny-five  churches,  two  hundred  pastors,  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
five  colleges,  schools,  asylums  and  hospitals.  Old  St.  Mary's,  the  original  church,  now  serving 
the  business  district,  was  located  at  Ninth  and  Wabash  after  the  great  fire.  In  1903  it  was 
placed  in  charge  of  the  Paulist  Fathers,  a  missionary  organization  whose  preachers  and  lecturers 
evangelize  the  Middle  States  and  are  constantly  in  demand  as  speakers  and  workers  in  public 
welfare  movements  of  Chicago. 

Parish  Activities:  Instruction  of  truth  seekers  drawn  to  St.  Mary's 

from  far  and  near.  Chicago  center  of  the  People's  Eucharistic  League.  Special  courses  of 
sermons  throughout  the  year.  Exceptional  music  by  the  Paulist  Choristers,  accorded  front 
rank  among  Chicago  musical  organizations. 

Paulist    Settlement    and    Playground   Association:     Kindergarten, 

domestic  science,  social  and  study  clubs,  music,  dancing,  dramatics,  athletics,  conducted  by 
volunteer  workers  in  well  equipped  settlement  house. 

Paulist  Day  Nursery:    One  of  the  oldest  and  best  in  the  city, 

accommodating  all  applicants. 

Our  Lady  of  Victory  Mission:  Rest  room  and  club  facilities  for  men, 

St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Conference  visits  all  needy  families  in  the  parish,  and  gives  aid  to  them  as 
well  as  to  temporarily  embarrassed  transients. 


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ACADEMY  of  OUR  LADY 

BOARDING  AND  DAY  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

Conducted  by  the  School  Sisters  of  Notre  Dame 

(Established  in  1875) 

The  course  of  instruction  begins  with  an  element  ery 
training  and  extends  through  an  academic  course  well 
into  college  work.  A  specialty  of  music  and  art. 

The  buildings  are  spacious  and  fitted  up  in  the  most 
modern  fashion.  Accomodations  for  250  students  in 
boarding  and  day  departments. 


Longwood  —  95th  and  Throop  Streets,  Chicago,  Illinois 


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De  La  Salle 
Institute 

35th  Street  and 
Wabash  Avenue 

Chicago 

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A  SPECIAL  SCHOOL  to  prepare  young  men  for  the  BUSINESS  WORLD 
Every  GRADUATE  is  placed  in  a  position 

By  means  of  an  EMPLOYMENT  DEPARTMENT  of  the  ALUMNI  ASSOCI- 
ATION opportunities  for  continual  advancement  are  afforded  former  students. 

Further  information  given  on  application  to  BROTHER  LAWRENCE  DAVID 


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COLLEGE  OF  ARTS,  PHILOSOPHY  &•  SCIENCES 
COLLEGE  OF  ENGINEERING 
COLLEGE  OF  EDUCATION 
ACADEMY 

For  information  call,  telephone  or  write 
Registrar,  1010  Webster  Avenue,  Chicago. 
Phone  Lincoln  7410. 


CO-EDUCATIONAL. 


COLLEGE  OF  LAW 

COLLEGE  OF  COMMERCE 

SPECIAL  PREPARATORY  DEPARTMENT 

SHORTHAND  SCHOOL 

For  information  call,  telephone  or  write 
Dean,  Room  705  Tower  Building,  6  N.  Michi- 
gan Ave.,  Chicago.  Phone  Randolph  3160. 


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Missionary  Sisters,  Servants  of  the  Holy  Ghost 

A  Congregation  founded  primarily  for  work  in  the 
foreign  missions.  Holy  Ghost  Institute,  Techny,  111., 
is  the  Mother  House  and  Novitiate  of  the  Congrega- 
tion and  House  of  Study  for  the  young  members  of 
the  Community.  With  it  connected  is  a  Boarding 
School  for  Girls  and  Young  Ladies. 

For  further  details  in  regard  to  admission  into  the 
Congregation  address 

Mother  Provincial,    Holy   Ghost   Institute,    Techny,    III. 


Our  Lady  of  Providence  Academy 

3107  W.  Van  Buren  Street  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 

HIGH  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

Conducted  by  the  Sisters  of  Providence,  of  Saint  Mary- 
of-the-Woods,  Indiana. 

COURSES 
Normal  and  College  Preparatory 

General  and  Commercial 

Household  Science  and  Art    Training  for  Library  Work 
Accredited  with  All  the  State  Educational  Institutions 

Promotional  Credits  Given 
CONSERVATORY  OF  MUSIC 

Piano,  Vocal,  Harp,  Violin 

Teachers'  Certificate  Course        Graduate  Course 
Private  Lessons  in  Art  Drawing,  Water-Colors,  Oil 

China-Painting,  Pastel 

Cafeteria  in  the  School  Building 

Catalogue  Given  on  Application 


ACADEMY  OF 

ST.  SCHOLASTICA 

7430  Ridge  Avenue 
CHICAGO 

A  DAY  AND  BOARDING  SCHOOL 
FOR  GIRLS 

Cour?e    of    Instruction    from  Kindergarten 
through  High  School. 

A  Specialty  in  Music  and  Art 
Conducted  by  the  Benedictine  Sisters 


Headquarters 

35th  Street  and 

California  Ave. 

Chicago 


WE  BUY  &  SELL  ALL  VARIETIES  OF 
GRASS  &  FIELD  SEEDS 


SEEDS 

The  Albert  Dickinson  Co* 


Branch  Offices 

Minneapolis 
Detroit  Baltimore 
Boston  New  York 


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American  Cocoanut  Butter  Company,  Chicago,  Illinois 

FRANCISCO   &    JACOBUS     ? 

Engineers     and     Architects 

511  Fifth  Avenue.  39  South  La  Salle  Street 

New  York,  N.  Y.  Chicago,  Illinois 


St.  Patrick's  Commercial 
Academy 

UNDER   THE   DIRECTION   OF  THE   CHRISTIAN   BROTHERS 


This  school  offers  the  young  men  of  Chicago  a  thorough  prep- 
aration in  all  branches  pertaining  to  Business.  It  is  one  of 
the  oldest  educational  institutions  in  the  West.  Established 
in  the  early  '80s,  it  numbers  its  graduates  by  the  thousands. 
These  are  in  constant  demand  and  as  fast  as  students  qualify 
for  graduation  positions  await  them.  Every  big  business  house 
in  Chicago  knows  and  appreciates  their  thorough  training. 


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VISITATION  SCHOOLS 

The  commodious  and  well-equipped 
Visitation  Schools,  situated  on 
Garfield  boulevard  and  Peoria  street, 
have  an  enrollment  of  over  two 
thousand  children.  These  schools 
are  conducted  by  the  Sisters  of  the 
Order  of  St.  Dominic,  Sinsinawa, 
Wisconsin.  Under  the  supervision 
of  the  same  Order  is  Rosary  College, 
to  be  erected  at  River  Forest. 


Saint  Cyril 
College 


CONDUCTED  BY 


The  Carmelite  Fathers 

6413  Dante  Avenue 
CHICAGO 


TELEPHONES 
Hyde  Park  1418  Midway  8223 


Aquinas  High  School 

2100  East  72nd  Street 
Chicago 


Founded  in  1915,  is  situated  in  the  beau- 
tiful Bryn  Mawr  Highlands,  in  the  parish 
of  St.  Philip  Neri.  It  stands  on  Seventy- 
second  street  near  Merrill  ave.,  and  is 
under  the  direction  of  the  Sisters  of  St. 
Dominic  from  Adrian,  Michigan. 

The  curriculum  consists  of  four  courses  of 
study:  the  Classical  course,  the  Domestic 
Science  course,  the  Commercial  course, 
and  a  complete  course  in  instrumental 
and  vocal  music,  and  art. 


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SAINT   MARY'S 
HIGH    SCHOOL 

SAINT   Mary's  High  School, 
founded  in   1899,  under  the 


direction  of  the  Sisters  of 
Charity  of  the  Blessed  Virgin 
Mary,  is  a  legally  incorporated 
and  thoroughly  equuipped  insti- 
tution for  the  higher  education 
ot  girls.  It  is  accredited  to  the 
Catholic  University  .Washington, 
B.C.,  and  to  the  State  University. 
Owing  to  the  increased  number 
of  students,  three  additions  to 
the  original  structure  have  been 
made.  The  building  includes 
^^^  fifteen  classrooms,  physical  and 

biological  laboratories,  four  com- 
mercial rooms,  auditorium,  do- 
mestic science  suite,  dining  room, 

music  rooms,  library  and  chapel.  The  various  departments  are  equipped  with  everything  that  is  necessary  for  the 
successful  completion  of  the  work  which  the  school  professes  to  teach.  The  library  contains  the  works  of  standard 
authors,  encyclopedias,  reference  books  and  works  for  historical  research.  The  auditorium,  which  is  delightfully 
situated,  has  a  seating  capacity  of  eight  hundred.  The  curriculum  offers  the  following  courses  of  study: 
General  Course;  College  Preparatory;  Normal  Preparatory;  Household  Arts  and  Science;  Commercial  and  Secre- 
tarial Courses;  Piano,  Vocal,  Violin,  Art  and  Expression. 

For  the  past  few  years  the  Loyola  Extension  Courses  have  been  conducted  at  the  school.  This  year  the  fol- 
lowing courses  are  offered:  History  of  Education,  The  Short  Story,  and  Sociology.  A  large  number  of  Public  school 
teachers  of  Chicago  have  availed  themselves  of  this  opportunity  to  receive  promotional  credits.  For  further 
information  address 


NAZARETH  ACADEMY 

Boarding  School  for  Girls 

Academic  Courses  prepare  for  College  or  Normal  en- 
trance. Grammar  and  Primary  department  for  little  girls. 
Commercial  course  of  two  years.  Music — Conservatory 
methods  in  Piano,  Violin  and  Vocal.  Physical  Culture, 
Elocution  and  Dancing  under  competent  teachers. 

These  Institutions  are  ideally  located  within  walking 
distance  of  each  other,  thus  affording  to  brothers  and  sis- 
ters that  home  companionship  which  the  young  so  much 
miss  when  separated  from  the  family  circle.  The  students 
are  far  removed  from  the  distractions  and  the  other  disad- 
vantages of  the  large  city.  The  surroundings  are  ideal  and 
in  every  way  conducive  to  earnest  study  and  to  proper 
physical  development. 


La  Grange  is  situated  on  the  Burlington  R.  R.,  within 
fourteen  miles  of  Chicago.  It  can  also  be  reached  by  the 
La  Grange  Interurban  surface  cars,  Douglas  elevated  or 
by  automobile. 

Campus  20  acres.    For  prospectus  write  to  the 
MOTHER  SUPERIOR, 

Nazareth  Academy,  La  Grange,  111. 


ST.  JOSEPH    INSTITUTE 

Preparatory  Boarding  School  for  Boys 

The  Preparatory  department  consists  of  all  the  grades. 
Careful  training,  thorough  instruction  and  perfect  disci- 
pline are  insisted  upon.  New  fire-proof  dormitories  and 
gymnasium  have  just  been  added  to  the  building. 


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MERCY  HOSPITAL 

(Founded  1850) 

THE  first  institution  devoted  to  the  treatment  of  the  sick  in  Chicago  was  the 
hospital   established  in   1850  bv  the   Sisters   of   Mercy  on   the   south   side   lake 
front.     From  an  insignificant  beginning-  it  kept  pace  with  the  giant  strides  of  our 
wonderful   city,   until   now   the   magnificent    group   of  buildings    and    its   beautiful 
grounds  constitute  a  veritable  palace  for  the  sick. 

The  hospital  is  first  class  in  all  its  appointments,  and  strictly  modern  in  all  its 
methods.     The  best   medical  and   surgical   staff  of  doctors   in  the  Northwest,  and 
a  large  staff  of  trained  nurses  minister  to  the  needs  of  the  sick  and  injured. 
The  present  site  of  the  institution  is  bounded  by  Calumet  Avenue,  Twendy-sixth  Street  and  Prairie  Aoenue. 


HOSPITAL,  OF 


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Marshall  Boulevard  and  West  19th  Street 
CHICAGO 

Founded  in  1898  and  is  conducted  by  the 
Franciscan  Sisters  of  the  Sacred  Heart.  It  is 
ideally  located  at  Nineteenth  St.  and  Marshal1. 
Boulevard,  fronting  as  it  does  on  beautiful 
Douglas  Park.  Sister  M.  Monica  is  superior  of 
the  institution.  About  3,000  patients  are  treat- 
ed yearly  Rev.  Anthony  Nousa,  O.  S.  B.,  is 
chaplain.  The  hospital  is  open  to  all  physicians 
and  surgeons  of  good  standing,  and  no  difference 
is  made  in  the  admission  of  patients  and  their 
treatment. 


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The  Marywood 
School  for  Girls 


Browning,  King&Company 

133  South  State  Street 

Established  in  Chicago  45  Years 

Clothing,  Furnishings 
and  Hats 

Reasonable  Prices    Dependable  Merchandise 


Conducted  by 

Sisters  of  Providence 

of 
Saint  Mary-of-the-Woods 

BOARDING  and 
DAY    SCHOOL 

2128  Ridge  Avenue 
EVANSTON,  ILLINOIS 


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ST.  BERNARD'S 
HOSPITAL 


Founded  in  1905 


Conducted  by  the 
Religious  Hospital- 
lers of  St.  Joseph. 


Elegantly  equipped.  It 
has  a  capacity  of  200 
patients.  Its  location  is 
central,  being  situated  at 


ST.  FRANCIS  HOSPITAL 

355-365  Ridge  Bould.,  Evanston,  Illinois 

Within  easy  reach  of    Elevated   (Howard  and 

Calvary  Stations)  and  Surface  Lines  (Clark  and 

Western  Avenue  cars). 

Conducted  by  the  Sisters  of  St.  Francis  (Mother 

house,  Lafayette,  Ind).    Opened  1900  in  the  old 

Kirk  residence.     The  new  building,  completed  in 

1910,  has  an  ideal  location. 

Hospital  farm.    About  one  hundred  beds. 

Well  equ'pped  maternity,  X-ray  and  laboratory 

departments.     Resident  chaplain. 

The  new  St.  Francis  training  school  for  nurses 
is  accredited  by  the  State  of  Illinois.  Applicants 
should  write  to  Sister  Superior. 


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Saint  Mary  of  Nazareth  Hospital 

and 

Training  School  for  Nurses 

1120   N.  Leavitt   Street 
Chicago 

Telephone  Humboldt  2600 


Conducted   by   the   Sisters    of   the 
Holy  Family  of  Nazareth. 


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ST.  ELIZABETH  HOSPITAL 

1433  CLAREMONT  AVENUE,  CHICAGO 


WAS   erected   in   1886  with   the  assistance   of  generous  citizens  by  the  lamented 
Sister  M.  Polycarpa,  who,  with  her  successors  in  office,  and  an  efficient  corps 
of  Sisters,   Poor  Handmaids  of  Jesus  Christ,  were  untiring  in  their  efforts  to 
elevate  the  standard  of  the  Hospital. 

The  corner  stone  was  laid  October  17,  1886,  by  Archbishop  Feehan,  in  the 
presence  of  many  members  of  the  clergy.  The  societies  of  the  German  parishes  took 
part  in  the  festivities  of  the  day  by  attending  in  corpore,  accompanied  by  bands 
of  music. 

The  buildings  are  kept  thoroughly  modernized  in  every  respect  and  provided 
with  all  the  equipments  that  contribute  to  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  the  patients. 

The  present  standard  of  the  Hospital  is  to  a  great  extent  due  to  the  devotedness 
and  faithfulness  of  the  honorable  Staff. 

During  the  year  1918,  4,356  patients  were  admitted.  Many  were  treated 
free  of  charge. 

The  Training  School  for  Nurses  opened  in  1913,  is  accredited  by  the  State  Board 
and  affiliated  with  the  Loyola  University  and  the  Anna  Durand  Hospital  for 
Contagious  Diseases. 

The  Woman's  Auxiliary  of  St.  Elizabeth  Hospital  was  organized  March  15,  1917. 
The  main  object  in  view  is  to  raise  funds  for  a  very  much  needed  new  addition  to 
the  Hospital. 


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A  Finer  Typewriter  at  a  Fair  Price 


An  extraordi- 
nary evidence 

of  industrial  progress  is 
shown  in  the  present 
price  of  typewriters. 
The  identical  Oliver  that 
formerly  sold  for  $100 
can  now  be  had  for  $57. 
Economical  sales  meth- 
ods have  reduced  the 
price  nearly  one-half 
without  affecting  the 
quality. 

The  Oliver  Typewriter  Company,  Chicago 


